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223,000 schoolkids spanked, paddled More than 200,000 children were spanked or paddled in U.S. schools during the past school year, human rights groups reported today. "Corporal punishment discourages learning, fails to deter future misbehavior and at times even provokes it," wrote Alice Farmer, the author of a joint report from Human Home > Rss Directory > General > CNN |
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Sprint Nextel to lay off 4,000, close 125 retail outlets Sprint Nextel will lay off about 4,000 employees and close about 125 retail outlets after it suffered a net loss of more than 100,000 customers in the fourth quarter of 2007, the company said Friday.The layoffs Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Mac easiest to hack, says $10,000 winner The security researcher who walked away with $10,000 Thursday by hacking a MacBook Air in less than two minutes said he chose to attack Apple Inc. 's operating system for one simple reason."It was the easiest on Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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U.S. Weekly Initial Jobless Claims Drop By 6,000 To 445,000 (AHN) (AHN) - U.S. weekly initial jobless claims for insurance fell by 6,000 to 445,000 during the week ending Sept. 6. The number of individuals filing initial jobless claims for unemployment benefits dropped more-than-projected last week as the analysts had projected the figure to fall by 4,000. - Thu, Home > Rss Directory > Business > AllHeadline |
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290,000 Resumes So Far "So far, the transition team has received 290,000 applications for jobs in the Obama administration through its website -- www.change.gov -- and officials believe they could wind up with 1 million job-seekers by the time Obama is sworn into office on Jan. 20," the Los Angeles Times reports. Home > Rss Directory > General > Political Wire |
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Microsoft trained 200,000 teachers in India Microsoft has trained 200,000 teachers in India on the use of computers, ahead of its original target to train 80,000 teachers in the country during the five-year period ending December this year, it said.The co Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Hasselhoff to pay $25,000 a month to ex-wife, daughters
(AP) AP - David Hasselhoff has agreed to pay $25,000 a month to support his ex-wife and children. Court documents released Thursday show the former "Baywatch" star's divorce settlement calls for him to pay $21,000 a month to ex-wife Pamela Bach and another $4,000 to support their daughters, 17-year-ol Home > Rss Directory > General > Yahoo News |
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China quake deaths exceed 51,000 The death toll from China's Sichuan province quake jumps by 10,000 to more than 51,000, with 30,000 missing. Home > Rss Directory > General > BBC World |
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U.S. Private Sector Losses 33,000 Jobs In August, ADP Says (AHN) (AHN) - The private companies in the U.S. slashed more-than-expected number of jobs in the month of August. According to the ADP National Employment Report, nonfarm private employment declined by 33,000 on a seasonally adjusted basis in August, up from the revised gain of 1,000 to 9,000 in July. - T Home > Rss Directory > Business > AllHeadline |
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U.S. Weekly Initial Jobless Claims Drop By 20,000 To 478,000 (AHN) (AHN) - U.S. weekly initial jobless claims for insurance declined by 20,000 to 478,000 during the week ending Oct. 4, according to the Labor Department on Thursday. - Thu, 9 Oct 2008 13:44:19 GMT Home > Rss Directory > Business > AllHeadline |
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Add $30,000 to Palin's Tab Republican campaign finance reports for the final weeks of the presidential campaign will show additional purchases of "accessories" for Gov. Sarah Palin (R) of "less than $30,000," according to The Hotline.First Read confirms the $30,000 is in addition to the $150,000 of clothing purcha Home > Rss Directory > General > Political Wire |
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Yahoo Will Cut 1,000 Jobs As it announced a 23-percent decline in fourth-quarter profit, Yahoo also said it planned to cut 1,000 jobs from its 14,000-member work force. Home > Rss Directory > Business > NY Time |
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Yahoo Will Cut 1,000 Jobs As it announced a 23-percent decline in fourth-quarter profit, Yahoo also said it planned to cut 1,000 jobs from its 14,000-member work force. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > NY Time |
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Some 8,000 'surge' troops will remain in Iraq About 8,000 of the 30,000 "surge" troops sent to Iraq in 2007 will not go home as planned this summer, the pentagon said Monday. Home > Rss Directory > General > CNN |
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Wife rings up £11,000 downloading bill Is Friends worth £3,000 an episode? A wife inadvertently cost her husband £11,000 after downloading four episodes of US sitcom Friends using his laptop, according to the Telegraph newspaper.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Update: AT&T to lay off more than 4,000 employees Telecom giant AT&T plans to lay off 1.5 percent of its employees, primarily in management, in an effort to streamline its operations, the company announced Friday.AT&T had about 310,000 employees at the end of 2 Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Apple: 200,000 iPhone developers so far Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer revealed that the company has signed up 200,000 developers for its iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK) release thus far. Oppenheimer also said that Apple is signing up more developers each week. In mid-March, Apple announced that the iPho Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Death Toll in Myanmar Storm Could Reach 10,000 As the death toll from a devastating cyclone escalated to nearly 4,000, the foreign minister said that it could rise to 10,000. Home > Rss Directory > General > NY Time |
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Myanmar Cyclone Kills 4,000; 3,000 Missing; Monks Spearhead Cleanup The government fears the death toll could reach 10,000. Home > Rss Directory > General > ABC News |
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Myanmar says cyclone death toll tops 22,000
(AFP) AFP - More than 22,000 people were killed in Myanmar's devastating cyclone and 41,000 are still missing four days after the storm slammed into the country's southern coast, the government said Tuesday. Home > Rss Directory > General > Yahoo News |