A new resource for teachers
This week we launched our newest youth report Maternal and Newborn Health: A Global Challenge drawn from the real life stories and data in the 2009 State of the World’s Children report. This is the second youth report we’ve developed in a continuing series devoted to the global challenges U ...

my new job: teaching refugees
Scene: a tiny room full to the brim with about 30 7ish-year-olds in relative chaos. Teacher (‘T’ i.e. me): “English! Write your name in English!” S: “My father’s name or my name?” T: “Your name not your father’s name: your first name.” S: “What’s a first name?” T: “Y ...


Descent from ‘Gold Mountain’
Looking for Louie Part 3 of 7 To get to see Mr. Lam you have to stand for 45 minutes in the “U.S. Citizen Services” line at the American consulate in Honking - mercifully shorter at least than the three-hour line for ‘Others.’ You have to pass through a metal detector submit to a pat-se ...

The Future of Nuclear Energy: Facts and Fiction - Part II: What is known about Secondary Uranium Resources?
This is the second part of a four-part guest post by Dr. Michael Dittmar. Dr. Dittmar is a researcher with the Institute of Particle Physics of ETH Zurich and he also works at CERN in Geneva.During 2009 nuclear power plants with a capacity of 370 GWe will produce roughly 14% of the world-wide e ...

Business Headlines
Today’s EarningsBJ* DE* HAR JDSU LTD NTAP PETM SNPS & YGEBJBJ’s profit for the second quarter that ended August 1 was $35.1 million or 64 cents per share compared with $36.5 million or 61 cents per share a year earlier.Analysts on average had been expecting earnings of 62 cents per share ac ...