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...analysts Kelsey Group. The individual pages contained on any of these sites or their blogging cousins may appear trivial: minutiae about cats' feeding habits, or the favorite break-up songs of teenage girls. But companies are banking on the notion that, in the aggregate, these pages represent a gold mine of credible consumer information. "Whether you are referring someone to either a great restaurant or a local hairstylist, since the lead came from a trusted source, there's a good chance that the person will be much more qualified to react not just to the content on the page...
White and black South Africans united last week - on the picket lines. Gold miners in the world's biggest bullion producer went on a four-day strike demanding higher wages and better living conditions. The stoppage, the first industry-wide action for almost two decades, ended after employers agreed to a 6-7% pay increase. But low pay is not the only issue. Many mineworkers still live in single-sex hostels, symbols of exploitation under the old apartheid regime. The gold-mining companies point out that they have improved accommodation considerably; still, "the problem is to rebuild an entire housing...
...truth about the history of Africa” is Goal #1 of Panafest and enticement enough to compel your correspondent, a gadfly of colonial history and sensitive about sweeping, Pan-African pronouncements of historical truth, to hightail it to this one-time capital of Britain’s Gold Coast Colony (Cape Coast, Ghana) where the confab is gathering...
...Lonely Vigil, a book about Coastwatchers in the Solomons, historian Walter Lord describes how men - from plantation managers to accountants, gold miners to publicans - secreted themselves in the jungle and on mountaintops to keep an eye on virtually every move the Japanese made along the strategic waterway known as "The Slot," between Bougainville and Guadalcanal. Using long-range teleradios, the Coastwatchers were able to intercept Japanese communications and pass on real-time intelligence about supply runs, troop movements and air raids. As well, working with indigenous people like Gasa, the Coast-watchers charted shorelines, prepared landing beaches, provided guides through...
...piecing together what went wrong, there is plenty of blame to go around. At various times over the past three months, CNOOC, the Chinese government (which owns 70% of the company), and the company's gold-plated U.S. advisers?investment banks Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan, as well as high-powered Washington, D.C., law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer Feld LLP?all made bewildering, tone-deaf mistakes that hurt CNOOC's case. The oil company's Washington team, sources close to the deal say, consistently reassured management that the politics were manageable?even as the political climate deteriorated throughout...