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...good thing New Zealand has plenty of cattle, because these days it needs a lot of fatted calves: its prodigal sons are coming home in record numbers. Long resigned to losing its best and brightest to the bright lights and big cities of Asia, Europe and North America, the country is suddenly witnessing a reverse brain drain. The global economic downturn, combined with post-9/11 anxiety, is driving many expatriate Kiwis back to their antipodean homeland. It helps that New Zealand's economy, like Australia's, is bucking the global trend and growing at around 4%. Last year produced...
...record industry plans on spending hundreds of millions of dollars employing hundreds of techs to keep one step ahead of the growing peer-to-peer alliance, they may as well just eat the cost they claim to be incurring now. I for one would say it is not the brightest idea to "challenge" our technically talented youth. I am quite sure they are up for this fight. Jeff Brodzeller Milwaukee...
...policing, teaching, social casework. The Police Corps, which exists outside AmeriCorps, and Teach for America are exemplars of the latter. They are unabashedly elitist; TFA accepts only 13% of all applicants. They involve rigorous training programs. And the goal is to leverage the altruism of the best and the brightest college students, putting them to work on the toughest jobs in the toughest neighborhoods--and, in the process, to help create a new generation of leaders like the "Greatest" generation, imbued with the spirit of sacrifice...
...policing, teaching, social casework. The Police Corps, which exists outside AmeriCorps, and Teach for America are exemplars of the latter. They are unabashedly ?litist; TFA accepts only 13% of all applicants. They involve rigorous training programs. And the goal is to leverage the altruism of the best and the brightest college students, putting them to work on the toughest jobs in the toughest neighborhoods-and, in the process, to help create a new generation of leaders like the "Greatest" generation, imbued with the spirit of sacrifice...
...says Dhamija, e-bookers' founder and CEO. "The question was whether we would become No. 1 or No. 2." Today e-bookers is Europe's largest Internet travel agency and the first (as of May) to turn a pretax profit. It was also the London Stock Exchange's second-brightest star last year, with share prices...