The two-day transportation summit in Washington called on by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood will be tackling the ever controversial subject of the distracted driver. The topic of discussion will be texting and talking on the phone while driving. “This is not dissimilar to solving the problem of drunk driving,” LaHood said in an interview with [...]
Ben Olken, an associate professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his colleagues have come up with a study that compares a country’s temperature with its economic growth. The study, by economists at MIT, found that in years with higher temperatures, poor countries experienced significantly slower economic growth.
The research adds to an [...]
The European Union has reached an agreement with all major mobile phone manufacturers to produce a common phone charger. Apart from reducing the frustration of customers juggling incompatible chargers, proponents say the agreement will encourage recycling and reduce electronic waste. The European Union commission has been able to have 10 of the top mobile phone [...]
With the tanking of the economy, who would have thought that giving would fall only 2% in 2008 from the previous year? People gave more than $307 billion in 2008 and more than $300 billion two years in a row — that’s great news according to Nancy Raybin the chair of the Giving Institute, whose Giving USA [...]
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A Japanese university is giving away 500 Apple iPhones equipped with the GPS tracking system to cut down on truancy in the classroom. This is a move that was taken by the university after so many students were found skipping class and having their attendance cards filled by others. The school in Tokyo studies the effect of [...]
Tonight will air the last show of the The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Mr. Leno has left a remarkable record of being on the set night after night for 17 years and has only missed just about a couple of shows as recent as last month when he was reportedly ill and taken to the hospital. [...]
US consumer confidence jumped to its highest in eight months as signs of improvement were noticed in the labor market. The consumer confidence index rose to 54.9 in May from a revised 40.8 in April, the biggest one-month increase since April 2003 according to the latest data from Wall Street. “Consumers are considerably less pessimistic than [...]
A corporation in Saipan, Guam has been found liable to pay $64,969 in unpaid wages and illegal deductions to 16 alien workers by the Department of Labor. Yong Jia Corp has been ordered to pay amounts ranging from $2724 to $4912 to 16 alien workers. According to labor records, Ulloa, a U.S. citizen and officer of [...]
If anyone saw today’s Washington Post, there was an article on a DC police officer being sentenced yesterday to a year in prison for stealing more than $175,000 from the District during 2004 to 2008. Karin Coppens, a 23 - year member of the force pleaded guilty for falsifying her time sheets, claiming she worked overtime, and [...]