Month: September 2011

Amusing

The World’s Biggest Employers

ONE of the biggest headaches for policymakers in many rich countries has been how to create jobs during a period of fiscal austerity and anaemic growth. The private sector has been slow to generate jobs, and government-spending cuts usually end up cutting jobs. And governments employ a lot of people: in our chart of the ten biggest global employers, below, seven are government-run. America’s defence department had 3.2m people on its payroll last year, equivalent to 1% of the country’s population. China, the world’s most populous nation and a big military spender, employs 2.3m people in its armed forces. And the number of people working for the National Health Service in England is equivalent to over 2.5% of the country’s population. The three private companies are Walmart, McDonald’s and Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry Company, a subsidiary of which is Foxconn, a secretive electronics manufacturer.

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Amusing

Tiger: Beware of Dog?

Video Description:

The tiger and dog have been raised together since they were nine weeks old, they have become inseparable friends. They play together all the time and neither one of them has ever been injured.

Riddles

Random Riddle

Absolutely nothing, as 80 minutes equals an hour and twenty minutes.
Hold your mouse over for the answer.
The marathon man timed himself and found out that if he wore a bright white outfit he ran 20 miles in 80 minutes, but when he wore a dark outfit, he ran 20 miles in one hour and twenty minutes.

What does this mean for his next race?

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