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discussiondivas

  1. Pay gap btwn female/male mngrs narrowed 2 cents in 10 yrs (81 cents on $1 vs 79 in 2000). Yeesh. New report from GAO:http://nyti.ms/bmQ1Xn
  2. Your chance: RT @WhatTheyKnow: Submit your questions on digital privacy, and WSJ reporters will help answer them. http://on.wsj.com/bAukql
  3. Wondering what technology makes toasters-not toaster ovens-have to be so big and pricey? Over 1 ft of counter space long and wide..really?!
  4. I wonder if this helps with losing post-baby weight too :) http://nyti.ms/9368vE
  5. News to watch today beyond Obama speech reaction -- a vote on "too big to fail" bank regulation bill in House Financial Services committee.
  6. A bad day to visit museums in Paris! Worker strikes closed the lovely Musee d'Orsay, The Pompidou Center and more: http://bit.ly/5Zu7gT
  7. News today will be all about Afghanistan. Obama speech tonight at West Point - expected to add 30,000+ troops. Approx. 68,000 there now -
  8. What are we willing to pay for? http://bit.ly/HKY7y
  9. Minimum wage goes up today to $7.25 an hour from $6.55. Good or bad for the economy?
  10. All about the markets today - Dow's holding above 9,000 for the first time since January.
  11. A look at the facts on health care so far, Diva style: http://bit.ly/bcW2Z
  12. A good primer for the speech tonight - what's at stake: http://bit.ly/yYeWA
  13. Big day! Working on Bay Area get-together for Divas and a new direction for our email, plus Obama on health care tonight.
  14. Internet traffic after MJ's death doubled to 4.2 million visitors per minute! Usually around 2 million. http://tinyurl.com/lqywpd
  15. Back from France and catching up on all the news... have a summer reading review coming this Friday in addition to being back with the news.
  16. Yikes - NYT issues correction in Maureen Dowd's column that has a paragraph taken almost verbatim from blogger: http://tinyurl.com/pow4tm
  17. Awaiting Obama's remarks at Notre Dame commencement... 2 p.m. ET... coming up!
  18. Speaking as a Missourian, very curious what this Missouri man was doing in Burma...http://tinyurl.com/ow9a23
  19. Ready to watch Rachel Alexandra race the boys! 6:15 ET http://tinyurl.com/ps282f
  20. Great news for Roxana! The jailed journalist in Iran we wrote about - http://tinyurl.com/d8d9ld ... is free! http://tinyurl.com/qz8wnl