Achieving Development by Improving Women’s RightsThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 5:45PMGender equality and the empowerment of women is one of the Millennium Development Goals to be reached by the year 2015. The anti-poverty targets set by the international community in 2001 can only be achieved if real progress is made in improving women’s rights.
Valerie Zehl Neighbors: Binghamton man strives to pick up the piecesThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 5:43PMWith regret in their hearts, the Mujcic family fled the land they loved in 1999. Bosnia had turned into its own special hell, but Esed, wife Senada and their sons Esmin and Mirza had managed to dodge the bullets that killed or maimed so many.
Citigroup Leads Bull Charge: Dave's DailyThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 5:40PMA little hint from Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit of "slight growth" in 2010 year set bulls to a buying panic.This edition of Dave's Daily also looks at AIG and ETFs such as SPY, GLD and UNG.
Obama lobbied on black unemployment, immigrationThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 5:38PMSource: Reuters * Back-to-back White House meetings * Black leaders seeking job creation * Also immigration talks with Schumer, Graham (Adds Obama, Graham statements) By Steve Holland WASHINGTON, March 11 ( ...
Stability rests on community: Urumqi mayorThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 5:36PMBEIJING: As Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, attempts to heal from the July 5 riot, its government will increase surveillance on migrant communities and boost spending on daily activities that contribute to social stability.
Ohio gunman's note: 'Sorry I let you down'Thursday, March 11, 2010 @ 5:35PMCOLUMBUS, Ohio, March 11 (UPI) -- An Ohio janitor who killed himself after shooting two superiors left a note he'd written to a woman saying he let her down, papers released Thursday indicated.
The Leading Business WeeklyThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 5:35PMTHERE is something paradoxical about diamonds. Ideally they should be a source of wealth and prosperity — even a symbol of love (“a girl’s best friend”, Marilyn Monroe told us) — but sometimes they can be a source of untold misery.
Gloomy outlook for jobless NUMMI workersThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 5:34PMAn annual benchmark report on the local labor market foresees gloomy prospects for the 4,700 assembly line workers at NUMMI when their jobs end on March 31.
Nashville area jobs increase by 7,000 since JulyThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 5:33PMChamber released new data on relocations and expansions More