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...reverse: Australia's booming economy is not generating enough unskilled work, particularly for men. According to Bob Gregory, professor of economics at the ANU, it's getting harder - not easier - for Aboriginal people to gain mainstream employment (that is, outside the burgeoning indigenous work-for-the-dole scheme). Despite massive spending on job training programs, the results have been "extraordinarily poor," argues Gregory, who estimates each full-time job from one intensive assistance program has cost taxpayers $A75,000. Without a change in economy-wide forces, things will only get worse, says Gregory, who has calculated that 50% of indigenous...
...launched a project - now budgeted at $35 billion over five years - to demolish and rebuild or renovate an initial 240 of France's most troubled neighborhoods. He's battling segregation, too, by situating as many as possible of the new developments in or near city centers. An employment scheme, meanwhile, is expected to create 500,000 new jobs, most of which Borloo says should go to banlieue residents. The plan is modeled on Borloo's success in the 1990s, when he tackled high unemployment and crime rates as mayor of the northern city of Valenciennes. Will it work? Borloo...
...shut out of El Bulli and stuck in Madrid, don't fret. The city boasts plenty of innovative places. One of them is La Broche in the Miguel Angel hotel, whose executive chef, Sergi Arola, apprenticed with Adriŕ. Dining at La Broche is an immersion in formalism. The color scheme of the dining room is sci-fi white, from the rectangular tables to the window blinds. The wait staff is all business (as is most of the clientele). The food, accelerating in flavor and intensity through a meal, seems conjured in Adriŕ's lab: breaded fois custard cream with apricot...
Last April, amid the green-and-orange color scheme of Loker Commons, the admissions office held a reception for students admitted to Harvard under the HFAI program. Byerly representatives were on hand to distribute white T-shirts with “HFAI” written across the back in large red letters. A table of crackers and cookies welcomed the couple dozen students milling about, comparing notes on their prefrosh experiences. None had yet accepted Harvard’s offer of admission, but almost all spoke enthusiastically about the opportunity afforded them through the College’s expanded...
...only one who misses the marvelous alliteration of “West Wing Wednesday.” Sweeps stunt aside, the show’s ratings have taken about a 30 percent hit since it moved to Sundays. But NBC has created a ratings scheme just so crazy that it might work. What we may be seeing here is a new evolution of the Reality TV genre at work, one which, rather than relying on hyperbolizations of pseudo-reality, aspires to some seamless fusion of the real and the really-well-written instead. Every topic addressed in last Sunday?...