» Monthly Archives: July 2009
By: Rayan Ali on 07/30/09 @ 1:00 am
This article was written Sue Shellenbarger from the Wall Street Journal Facing shrunken savings and borrowing options, parents and students are making some tough trade-offs in choosing and paying for college, suggesting some shifting attitudes toward higher education may endure beyond the recession. Old dreams of adult children earning degrees from elite, door-opening colleges or [...]
By: Rayan Ali on 07/28/09 @ 1:00 am
As reported in the Philanthropy News Digest: A comprehensive private-public approach to health reform could significantly reduce administrative healthcare costs over the coming decade while achieving near-universal coverage and improving healthcare quality and efficiency, a new report from the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System finds. The report, How Health Care Reform [...]
By: Rayan Ali on 07/23/09 @ 1:00 am
This article was written by WSJ.com’s Simona Covel Rising health-care costs are pushing entrepreneurs to the limit. Some are changing coverage. Some are eliminating coverage. And some are deciding not to go into business at all. For entrepreneurs trying to start or run a business, the obstacles are huge. But few loom as large as [...]
By: Rayan Ali on 07/21/09 @ 1:00 am
This is a very serious and interesting article written by Jordan Furlong of Law21.ca. So much so, that I posted the entire article here. Although it’s related to the practice of law, it really applies to every profession, trade, and human being born and yet to be born on earth. This,” says The Economist in [...]
By: Rayan Ali on 07/16/09 @ 1:00 am
This article was written by Wall Street Journal’s Raymund Flandez. In May, employees of Student Media Group in Newark, Del., started noticing a few things popping up in the office: a 50-inch plasma television screen, a ping-pong table, a Wii videogame player and a fridge stocked with free soda and snacks. They wondered what was [...]