Archive for March, 2010
Illegal Beekeeping in New York City Catches On
March 1st, 2010Via: Chow: On a fall morning before work, 29-year-old Meg Paska climbs a rickety ladder, opens a trapdoor, and steps out onto the roof of her vinyl-sided row house in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Set incongruously against the Manhattan skyline and the satellite dishes of neighboring roofs, a healthy cloud of honeybees swoops in and around two […]
Half the Members of an “Independent Panel” Appointed to Study the Quadrennial Defense Review Have Financial Ties to Defense Contractors
March 1st, 2010Via: USA Today: More than half of the panel members appointed to review the Pentagon’s latest four-year strategy blueprint have financial ties to defense contractors with a stake in the planning process, a USA TODAY analysis shows. Congress created the 20-member panel in 2006 to analyze the Defense Department’s four-year plan, known as the Quadrennial […]
Out of Work? U.S. Offers Lots of Lousy, Unsafe Jobs for Low Pay
March 1st, 2010Via: Bloomberg: Bend, grab head, cut through stem, unbend, shake head, bag head, put bagged head on platform. Repeat — hundreds of times. In this back-breaking way, a 31-member crew harvested 30,000 heads of Yuma, Arizona, iceberg lettuce one day in early 2008. It’s one of the stints Gabriel Thompson undertakes for “Working in the […]
JP Morgan: California Is a Greater Risk than Greece
March 1st, 2010Via: Telegraph: Jamie Dimon, chairman of JP Morgan Chase, has warned American investors should be more worried about the risk of default of the state of California than of Greece’s current debt woes. Mr Dimon told investors at the Wall Street bank’s annual meeting that “there could be contagion” if a state the size of […]
