“H” from Chicago, I heard you when you joined a lively discussion over hospice at home here a couple of weeks ago and asked, “where can family members get the training to do all the nursing tasks?”In the comments section, many readers wrote in to say that caring for relatives at the end of their lives was a duty and a privilege. Others said they were unprepared for the physical and emotional burdens...
IHT Rendezvous: Philosophy, or Plumbing: How Well Is Academia Preparing Students for the Real World?
Label: WorldA report being released Monday by the McKinsey Center for Government shows a big disconnect between new grads looking for work and the employers looking to hire them. Both sides have acknowledged that something is amiss: Only 42 percent of employers felt that new hires were adequately prepared by their education or formal training. Similarly, only 45 percent of graduates felt they were adequately...
Dec
09
Changes to Agriculture Highlight Cuba’s Problems
Label: BusinessHAVANA — Cuba’s liveliest experiment with capitalism unfolds every night in a dirt lot on the edge of the capital, where Truman-era trucks lugging fresh produce meet up with hundreds of buyers on creaking bicycle carts clutching wads of cash. “This place, it feeds all of Havana,” said Misael Toledo, 37, who owns three small food stores in the city. “Before, you could only buy or sell in the...
New Taxes to Take Effect to Fund Health Care Law
Label: LifestyleWASHINGTON — For more than a year, politicians have been fighting over whether to raise taxes on high-income people. They rarely mention that affluent Americans will soon be hit with new taxes adopted as part of the 2010 health care law. The new levies, which take effect in January, include an increase in the payroll tax on wages and a tax on investment income, including interest, dividends...
You for Sale: Company Envisions ‘Vaults’ for Personal Data
Label: TechnologyPeter DaSilva for The New York TimesMichael Fertik, the founder and chief executive of Reputation.com, at its offices in Redwood City, Calif., where he has amassed a database of information collected on millions of consumers. “YOU are walking around naked on the Internet and you need some clothes,” says Michael Fertik. “I am going to sell you some.” Naked? Not exactly, but close. Mr....
IHT Rendezvous: Reindeer Games in Hong Kong
Label: WorldHONG KONG — Hong Kong has one of the most expensive and crowded property markets in the world, and CBRE, the commercial real estate services firm with offices here, can be highly imaginative when illustrating that point.The CBRE team has released a Christmas video with the tongue-in-cheek announcement that Santa Claus, “the world’s leading toy distributor,” had found a solution to the tricky issue...
Dec
07
Gadgetwise Blog: Q&A: Using iTunes Music on a Windows Phone
Label: TechnologyCan I copy my iTunes music collection from my PC to my new Windows Phone?If the music in your iTunes library was purchased in mid-2009 and later or ripped from your own compact discs, you should be able to copy it over and play it on your Windows Phone. Music files originally purchased before April 2009 are probably still protected by digital-rights management (D.R.M.) software that restricts them...
Dec
06
Apple to Resume U.S. Manufacturing
Label: BusinessFor the first time in years, Apple will manufacture computers in the United States, the chief executive of Apple, Timothy D. Cook, said in interviews with NBC and Bloomberg Businessweek. “Next year, we will do one of our existing Mac lines in the United States,” he said in an interview to be broadcast Thursday on “Rock Center With Brian Williams” on NBC. Apple, the biggest company...
Antismoking Outlays Drop Despite Tobacco Revenue
Label: HealthFaced with tight budgets, states have spent less on tobacco prevention over the past two years than in any period since the national tobacco settlement in 1998, despite record high revenues from the settlement and tobacco taxes, according to a report to be released on Thursday. Paul J. Richards/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesState antismoking spending is the lowest since the 1998...
Antismoking Outlays Drop Despite Tobacco Revenue
Label: LifestyleFaced with tight budgets, states have spent less on tobacco prevention over the past two years than in any period since the national tobacco settlement in 1998, despite record high revenues from the settlement and tobacco taxes, according to a report to be released on Thursday. Paul J. Richards/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesState antismoking spending is the lowest since the 1998...
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