Visit the best preserved Greek temples in the world in a legendary Roman city… Most people have heard the tragic stories of Pompeii and Herculaneum, the Roman cities destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 BCE (before common era). Paestum, their ancient neighbor, has not received as much space in the history textbooks [...]
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Cigarette Tax and Tobacco Use A recent massive, long-term study of 12,000 8th and 10th grade youngsters clearly shows that raising the tax on cigarettes leads to fewer teenagers becoming regular smokers, said John A. Tauras, Ph.D., an economist at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Also, many offer campus-wide business plan contests, which have become a springboard for many Internet entrepreneurs. Many did not make the cut, but are worth mentioning for their various initiatives in the ecommerce area. They include the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, Georgia State University, the University of Washington Business School (Seattle), New [...]
The high-risk, high-reward promise of Net businesses has the best graduate schools redesigning their programs. Those who feel that getting a head start in the Information Age starts with prenatal exposure to mathematics and computer science won’t be surprised to learn that business schools are overhauling their curricula to give students a competitive edge in [...]
When capital is democratized it is also demystified. And once it is demystified it is no longer the job of a Master of the Universe to raise it. Ask a venture capitalist what he does for a living. He’ll offer you a long, complicated explanation. He’ll stress the advice he gives to entrepreneurs, the employees, [...]
The signature trait of the Net boom has been its from-the-ground-up quality. Little guys no one had ever heard of have created companies worth billions of dollars more or less overnight. This was possible only because they have had access to capital that, for little guys, is unprecedented. There has been a near total collapse [...]
You’ve never bought a stock but you understand the basics of the stock market and are ready to take the plunge as soon as someone answers two questions: 1) How do I find a good stock? and 2) should I use a full-service broker, a discount broker or buy the stock online? Here are the [...]
Asian Sources has used the Net to untangle the knot of Far East buyers and sellers. Is this the future of the import/export market? Like a bazaar guide who speaks the native language and knows the best places to shop, the New Economy’s “infomediary” introduces buyers to sellers and helps close the deal. In the [...]
When I was at Gatwick Airport in London, someone told me that you can get really inexpensive airline tickets to Europe if you fly for a courier firm. But I didn’t get any of the details. Is this true? How do I find out about it?