December 2009
15 posts
Margaret Chan, the head of the World Health...
Selected pictures from Africa in 2009 →
BBC slideshow.
Boston Globe op-ed: My lazy American students →
“Teaching in college, especially one with a large international student population, has given me a stark - and unwelcome - illustration of how Americans’ work ethic often pales in comparison with their peers from overseas.
My ‘C,’ ‘D,’ and ‘F’ students this semester are almost exclusively American, while my students from India, China, and Latin America...
With Fewer U.S. Opportunities, Home Looks... →
“With unemployment at 10% and prospects for finding work bleak, foreign-born professionals who came to the United States in search of better job opportunities and prosperity are now retreating.”
Who is Sec. Clinton's tech guy & what does he do? →
“Secretary of State Hillary Clinton often jokes that she’s not very tech savvy, but she has made technology an important part of U.S. diplomacy from Afghanistan to Mexico.
And she has appointed a 37-year-old technology policy expert to advise her on these matters.”
“I’m holding my nose as I say this, but I miss George W. Bush … On AIDS, he...”
– Gregg Gonsalves, “a long-time AIDS campaigner.” From a New York Times article looking at Obama’s global AIDS strategy.
“I was stunned after the election when President Obama asked me to consider this...”
– Hillary Clinton on receiving an offer from President Barack Obama to be the Secretary of State. From Vogue.
Washington D.C. LIVE On Twitter →
The Huffington Post’s interesting new local take on Twitter. Includes Twitter lists of local personalities, news updates, sports etc. Per @ckanal, HuffPo’s traffic & trends editor, they’ve got pages for 28 cities so far…
WatchNews industry expert Alan Mutter on all the conferences dealing with the future of news: “There’s a remarkable amount of the same old yada-yada at quite a number of these meetings.”
