Looking ahead: forecasting and planning for the longer-range future, April 1, 2, and 3, 2005

This repository item contains a single issue of the Pardee Conference Series, a publication series that began publishing in 2006 by the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. This was the Center's spring Conference that took place during April 1, 2, and 3, 2005.The conference allowed for many highly esteemed scholars and professionals from a broad range of fields to come together to discuss strategies designed for the 21st century and beyond. The speakers and discussants covered a broad range of subjects including: long-term policy analysis, forecasting for business and investment, the National Intelligence Council Global Trends 2020 report, Europe’s transition from the Marshal plan to the EU, forecasting global transitions, foreign policy planning, and forecasting for defense

Stabbing News: Articulating Crime Statistics in the Newsroom

There is a comprehensive body of scholarly work regarding the way media represent crime and how it is constructed in the media narrative as a news item. These works have often suggested that in many cases public anxieties in relation to crime levels are not justified by actual data. However, few works have examined the gathering and dissemination of crime statistics by non-specialist journalists and the way crime statistics are gathered and used in the newsroom. This article seeks to explore in a comparative manner how journalists in newsrooms access and interpret quantitative data when producing stories related to crime. In so doing, the article highlights the problems and limitations of journalists in dealing with crime statistics as a news source, while assessing statistics-related methodologies and skills used in the newsrooms across the United Kingdom when producing stories related to urban crime

Peace be upon you : Fourteen centuries of muslim, christian, and jewish conflict and ...

New York343 p.; 20 cm

What's college for? : the struggle to define American higher education /

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-269) and index

The Kauffman Index 2015: Startup Activity | State Trends

In this report, we focus on startup activity at the state level. Startup activity rose in 2015, reversing a five-year downward trend in the United States, giving rise to hope for a revival of entrepreneurship. However, the return remains tepid and well below historical trends, as shown in Figure 1 below. A principle driver of this year's uptick is the growth of male opportunity entrepreneurship, accompanied by the continued strength of immigrant entrepreneurship -- covered in the Kauffman Index: Startup Activity | National Trends. Males were hit particularly hard during the Great Recession. Metro-area stars of the startup surge include perennial favorites like Austin and San Jose -- covered in the Kauffman Index: Startup Activity | Metropolitan Area and City Trends -- as well as some less highlighted places, such as Miami and San Antonio