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...just have to make sure that only a small minority of people who are bent on violence or making chaos will not be able to cause trouble." Yet by Sept. 20, with dissent bubbling up across the nation, the mild-mannered Prime Minister was reduced to pleading with various political factions to display a little gentlemanliness: "We can express different opinions," he said in a televised address. "But we are all Thais. Please don't hurt each other...
...several professors are making more significant changes of their own accord. Though the school’s administration had no direct role in the formation of these courses, several new second-year elective classes focusing on various aspects of the financial crisis have been introduced since...
...hard to tell what payoff would go to the winning technology provider, says Gordon, nor is it even known who would own the content. There is also the question of whether the various pay-for-content ideas would fly with consumers. Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently told British broadcasting executives that charging for online content won't work except for niche and specialist markets. Consumer surveys tend to support those doubts. A Belden Interactive survey released in mid-September found that computer users who said they'd pay for news online would shell out an average of only...
...host the event. "No one will ever know the true Olympic budget," says Stefan Szymanski, professor of economics at the Cass Business School in London. "A large number of public servants have been diverted to Olympic work without anyone [putting a value on] the use of their time, and various costs have been diverted to other budgets." With the world still in recession, the organizers' ability to secure more funding for the Games may prove to be problematic. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...category of ground-based air defense was opened to women. But despite these advances, Australian women still only occupy 13% of military positions. And today, they are lawfully excluded from roles in seven divisions of the army, these including navy clearance diver, the Special Air Services (SAS) and various positions on the ground that involve direct combat. Before last month, the ruling logic was that women were not physically strong enough to do these jobs. When the new standards come into place, women with a high fitness level will hopefully be enticed by the range of opportunities available to them...