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Submission + - Online Demand for Workers on the Rise

Submitted by MonsterGolum on Thursday April 19, 2007 @02:27PM

MonsterGolum writes: Monster Worldwide Inc. said Thursday its local employment index, which measures online recruitment activity in top U.S. markets, rose in 26 of 28 metro areas as the demand for workers remained robust. "'The March findings of the Monster Local Employment Index illustrate a solid pick-up in online recruiting in major U.S. cities in the final month of the first quarter,"' said Steve Pogorzelski, group president of Monster Worldwide, which operates job search Web site Monster.com.

Feed US State department rooted by 0-day Word attack (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Thursday April 19, 2007 @02:12PM

An accident waiting to happen

A virus attack aimed at US State Department computers last May penetrated government networks after a worker in Asia opened a contaminated email.

Submission + - How Safe is Space Tourism?

Submitted by Radon360 on Thursday April 19, 2007 @11:24AM

Radon360 writes: The race to send tourists into space is heating up with billionaires funding their own companies to build and launch spaceships for nonastronauts. Meanwhile, earlier this month, a Russian rocket carried another billionaire, former Microsoft Corp. programmer Charles Simonyi, to the International Space Station. The ride was brokered by Space Adventures Ltd., a company that has announced plans to build spaceports in Singapore and the United Arab Emirates.

But how safe is the space tourism business? The subject is discussed in a WSJ interview with Patricia Smith, who heads the Federal Aviation Administration office responsible for overseeing the nascent industry, and space entrepreneur Peter Diamandis, a co-founder of Space Adventures and chairman of the X Prize Foundation, which awarded a $10 million prize to Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne in 2004.

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