We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.īut you know what? We change lives. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest.
If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.” My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. “Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. New York City's new rationing rule "is designed to let everybody have a fair chance, so the lines aren't too oppressive and that we can get through this," New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a press conference Thursday.Ībout a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”: Typical two-hour waits at stations immediately after the storm went down to about 45 minutes after New Jersey instituted a similar odd-even rationing plan, according to news reports. Will it work? The odd-even system appears to have reduced the long lines in neighboring New Jersey following the widespread power outages caused by hurricane Sandy last week.
STATES ODD NUMBER FILL UPS LICENSE
On Saturday, only cars with license plates that end with even numbers or zero will be able to fill up. 9, is an odd day, only cars with license plates ending in an odd number or a letter or other character will be able to buy gas.
Spurred by the success of New Jersey's gas rationing plan, New York City and two Long Island counties will impose odd-even gas rationing beginning Friday morning. Gas-rationing in the storm-ravaged greater New York area is spreading.
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