Siblings team up to raise $1 billion for Pitt (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
With nearly 12 years and very distinct careers separating Eva Tansky Blum and her brother, Burt Tansky, neither thought they would ever pair up professionally. ......more...New generation of miners strikes gold in Australia (Taipei Times)
Australian prospectors used to be grizzled old blokes who went off into the hills with their swag and a bottle of whisky, hoping to find a few nuggets of gold and strike it rich....more... Outback miners strike pay dirt (Guardian Unlimited)
Western Australia has been transformed by prospectors lured by a base-metal boom...more... TCS secures $200 mn four-year deal in Mexico (rediff.com)
Mumbai-based IT services provider Tata Consultancy Services has signed a four-year, $200 million (around Rs 800 crore) contract with the Social Security Institute of Mexico -- one of its biggest deals and its first government contract in the region....more... Graduating to Public Service (Washington Post)
In hopes of encouraging more college students to consider careers in government, leaders at 27 universities are trading ideas and techniques on what it will take to bring a new generation into public service. ...more... Citizen Izzy (in Mediacheck) (The Tyee)
The rise of the Asper who gave us CanWest....more... New S.F. agency to coordinate employment programs (San Francisco Chronicle)
San Francisco City Hall's answer to its inability to account for tens of millions of dollars in annual spending on employment programs is to form a new city government agency to oversee it all, several members of the Board of Supervisors and Newsom... ...more... The CNN Wire: Wednesday, Nov. 14 (CNN.com)
U.S. soldier killed in blast, 4 wounded...more... HOLLY column (Bridgeton News)
Good morning! Forget today. The rain that started last night will continue this morning and this afternoon. Then it goes down into the 30s....more... |