Archive for January, 2006
Vandals wanted to test Amsterdam subway trains
In case you didn’t know, vandalism is common in
Amsterdam….
January 28th, 2006 by alephnaught
Workplace mentoring
I’ve been helping students from Tilton Elementary School to read better for three years, participating in the WITS program via LaSalle Bank’s Workplace Mentoring program. Here’s Davion:
Davion is a student at Tilton Elementary here in Chicago. The school is located on the west side in an economically
depressed part of town.
Davion is a good reader, [...]
January 27th, 2006 by alephnaught
January 27th, 2006 by alephnaught
Collapse
Title: Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Author: Jared Diamond
Paperback: 592 pages
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (December 27, 2005)
ISBN: 0143036556
This is the follow up to Diamond’s Guns, Germs and Steel . Where his first book attempted to answer the question, “why do you people have such great cargo,” this book asks, “why do civilizations [...]
January 22nd, 2006 by alephnaught
City of Walls
Title: City of Walls: Crime, Segregation, and Citizenship in Sao Paulo
Author: Teresa P. R. Caldeira
Paperback: 473 pages
Publisher: University of California Press (April 2, 2001)
ISBN: 0520221435
This was a very scholarly work. The main premise is that the culture of Sao Paulo is causing a segregation of its people based upon class, along with an increase [...]
January 21st, 2006 by alephnaught
São Paulo
I got to go to São Paulo , Brazil, on a business trip from January 15 through January 21, 2006. This was my first time in Brazil; I had a great time and would go again.
We stayed at L’Hotel, a very nice hotel near one of the major shopping and banking [...]
English
January 29th, 2006 by alephnaught