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Copyright lawsuit challenges Google's vision of digital 'library'. (17 Jun 2006)
AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS balk at the firm's ambitious plan to digitize world's information, saying it needs their permission.

Mo' money, mo' problems? (17 Jun 2006)
Discusses the effect of higher petroleum prices on the Canadian economy. Idea that a positive terms-of-trade shock that results from higher prices should translate into higher real economic growth in Canada; Idea that an economic imbalance, weak foreign demand for real exports, and the value of the Canadian dollar could slow down any positive impact from a shock.Full Text Word Count:739D

Lampert can make money, but can he remake retail? (17 Jun 2006)
This article looks at the management style of Eddie Lampert, chairman of Sears Holding Corp. Despite evidence of micro-managing, Lampert is not considered abrasive. Indeed, some insiders argue that despite initial rumors he would storm into Sears in a ruthless rampage of irrational cost-cutting, he has instead positioned himself as a rational and respectable leader among employees. Besides being tough, Lampert is also known for being extremely secretive.Full Text Word Count:1579

Where Should the Money Go? (17 Jun 2006)
Focuses on the concern expressed by charities on the significant amount allocated for the American Red Cross to spend on disaster relief for victims of Hurricane Katrina. Expectations of other nonprofit executives for the Red Cross to become the primary collector of donations that could be redistributed to other organizations; Criticism of hurricane survivors and nonprofit officials against the Red Cross operations in the wake of the disaster; Limitations of opportunity for groups that focus on long-term rebuilding.Full Text Word Count:2417

Authors' Group Sues Google Over Library-Scanning Project. (17 Jun 2006)
This article reports that the Authors Guild and three writers has filed a class-action lawsuit against Google Inc. over the company's partnership with academic libraries to scan books and place portions of them online. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleges that Google's scanning project infringes on the authors' copyrights and will lead to lost profits for authors. However, Google officials argue that their project is legal because the company will make only short excerpts of copyrighted works available.Full Text Word Count:410D

Career Materials. (17 Jun 2006)
The article presents information on various books, brochures and videos related to music education. The "Teacher to Teacher: A Music Educator's Survival Guide," is a new title addressing the issue of teacher retention, this practical guide is full of "real-life" strategies and suggestions for coping with the challenges facing teachers today. The book "Great Beginnings for Music Teachers: Mentoring and Supporting New Teachers," covers the challenges faced by beginning music teachers, district and state-sponsored mentoring and induction programs, alternative certification, and ideas for ongoing professional development. The video "The Ride Of Your Life: Musicians as Entrepreneurs," is designed for high school and college students. It introduces ten successful musical entrepreneurs who illustrate what it means to be a musician.Full Text Word Count:753D

14 Artists Named for Career Development Program. (17 Jun 2006)
This article reports on the 14 recipients of the 2005 Career Development Program for Directors and Designers, developed and administered by the Theatre Communications group in collaboration with the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts. Nataki Garrett is the artistic director of the ensemble theatre company Blank-the-Dog. Kristin Horton is a director and sound designer based in Iowa City, Iowa. Jonathan Walters is the founding artistic director of Hand2Mouth Theatre in Portland, Oregon.Full Text Word Count:1587

career directions. (17 Jun 2006)
This article focuses on the career of an instrumentation technician. The instrumentation technicians work with three major categories of instruments: pneumatic and electronegative equipment, hydraulic instrumentation and electrical and electronic equipment. Some technicians operate the equipment that produces the records the effects of certain conditions on the test instruments, such as vibration, stress, temperature, humidity, pressure, altitude and acceleration. Other technicians sketch, build and modify electronic and mechanical fixtures and instruments. All technicians perform mathematical calculations on instrument readings and test results so they can be used in graphs and written reports. Completion of a two-year program from a technical school or community college is the basic requirement for an entry-level job in the field. Programs are offered in several different disciplines in addition to instrumentation technology, such as electronics, electrical, mechanical, biomedical and nuclear technology.Full Text Word Count:1020

Anti-TB spending abroad could save money overall. (17 Jun 2006)
The article argues that investing in tuberculosis-control programs abroad could save the U.S. money in the long run. Investing $44 million in tuberculosis-control programs in Mexico, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic would save the United States nearly triple that amount over 20 years. By minimizing the prevalence of tuberculosis abroad, the investment could reduce the burden of disease imported into the country by immigrants, refugees, illegal aliens, and visitors. A $9.4 million contribution to treatment programs in Haiti and the Dominican Republic would yield a return of $20 million over 20 years, according to a report, which appeared in the September 2005 "New England Journal of Medicine." Dick Menzies of McGill University in Montreal led the research team, which includes two U.S. government scientists and researchers in Mexico, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic.Full Text Word Count:237D

IRA LAUNCHES ONLINE CAREER CENTER. (17 Jun 2006)
Presents information on the online Career Center launched by the International Reading Association. Creation of the Career Center to assist online visitors in their search for job opportunities in literacy education; Key features of the online career center; Advantages of the career center to job seekers.Full Text Word Count:236D

A New Face in the MONEY 50 Crowd. (17 Jun 2006)
Presents a chart detailing companies on the Money50 list. Removal of the Third Avenue Real Estate Value fund from the list because it closed to new investors; Addition of SSgA Emerging Markets fund, which invests in a broad spectrum of large-cap foreign stocks; List of large-cap, midcap, small-cap, specialty, foreign and bond funds on the Money50.Full Text Word Count:634D

Follow the Money. (17 Jun 2006)
Focuses on investing in companies that generate more money than they need to run existing businesses. Ways in which a company can use its excess cash to reward investors, including expanding, repurchasing stocks to boost earnings per share faster than profits grow, or raising dividends to return cash to shareholders; Advice to measure a company's cash flow--sales minus only the expenses that require immediate outlays--as a better way to size up stock.Full Text Word Count:1072

Money Funds Make a Comeback. (17 Jun 2006)
Reports on rising yields on money-market funds. Correlation between rising interest rates and rising money yield funds; Observation that yields on taxables are rising faster, making them a better bet for people in the 33% tax bracket or lower; Chart detailing various types of money-market accounts and funds from certain institutions, with their yields, minimum investments and telephone numbers.Full Text Word Count:713D

Today's Lesson: Starting Over in Mid-Career. (17 Jun 2006)
Focuses on changing jobs in mid-career. Story of Susana Temprano, who left being a sales executive at IBM earning $200,000 a year to become a Manhattan school teacher earning $40,000 a year, which none the less is more satisfying to her; Survey from the Conference Board showing that only 50% of workers say they are satisfied with their jobs, but few act on it; Need for adjustments to Temprano's financial life in order to make the shift and still afford her children's college education; Advice from financial planners on how to manage a career shift.Full Text Word Count:1658

money helps. (17 Jun 2006)
Presents a question and answer related to credit. Question on what to do from a man who has delinquent items on his credit reports due to a cell-phone account someone opened in his name, for which he received collection notices, that Sprint later agreed did not belong to him; Answer that follow through is very important, especially when dealing with three different bureaucracies, as the man did, and that anyone can dispute items on their credit reports with their credit agencies.Full Text Word Count:443D

Love and Money. (17 Jun 2006)
Offers advice for men on surviving stages of a man-woman relationship. Approval of women to men who are financially secure; Preparation of a portfolio in starting a family; Arrangement of the Qualified Domestic Relations Order, a document that splits up 401k benefits and pensions, in the U.S.Full Text Word Count:340D

About That Flaw in Google Print. (17 Jun 2006)
This article talks about the flaw of Google Print, an information service from Google Inc. Google's stated goal in establishing the Google Print program is to encourage its hosts of Web users to turn to book literature as well as the Web for their information and entertainment needs. The individual publishers decide which items to submit to the program. In return, these publishers expect to get digital copies of the printed books they submitted to the program. However, this is not the case. Google Print gives back digital files to the five giant research libraries participating in Google Print, but it never gives anything to publishers. The files it gives to the libraries are not even in Adobe Portable Document Format--they are sets of page image files accompanied by matching OCR searchable text files.Full Text Word Count:1135

Google Wins U.S. Keyword Case. (cover story) (17 Jun 2006)
This article discusses the U.S. District Court decision on the case Government Employees Insurance Company (GEICO) v. Google Inc. and Overture Services Inc., which concerns the Adwords service of Google. In the lawsuit, GEICO claimed that Google infringed upon its trademarks and engaged in unfair competition when it sold the GEICO trademark as a keyword to a competitor. This caused the competitor's sponsored links to appear next to the organic listings that include links to GEICO itself. The company claimed that the sponsored links were likely to confuse consumers into thinking that the source of those links was GEICO. It also claimed that the links were misleading, because they implied an association between GEICO and those other companies that appeared in the sponsored links. Google had argued that it only used the trademark of GEICO in its computer coding and that such an invisible process could not constitute infringement. In its decision, the court pointed out that GEICO did not need to prove actual confusion and that the sophistication of the consuming public could be a relevant factor. The court left several liability issues open, and, reportedly, the parties have recently settled this case under terms of confidentiality. The victory in GEICO could give Google much more flexibility in how it responds to claims of keyword trigger trademark infringement. This holding also may influence other pending cases, both in the U.S. and in Israel.Full Text Word Count:1310

CAREER advice: Just do it. (17 Jun 2006)
Suggests an approach to overcome procrastination. Effect of procrastination on a career; Causes of procrastination; Advice for employees who have reached a difficult part of a job.Full Text Word Count:685D

Your Money. (17 Jun 2006)
Presents news briefs on financial issues in the U.S. as of October 2005. Average balance of Fidelity in 401(k) accounts it services in 2004; Recommendation to control fuel costs; Increase in the percentage of workers who were offered health insurance by their employers between 1997 and 2002.Full Text Word Count:164D

ARE COSTLY CANISTER VACS WORTH THE MONEY? (17 Jun 2006)
Evaluates several vacuum cleaners. Advantages of the Kenmore Progressive; Price of the Electrolux Oxygen Ultra; Features of the Red Velvet from Miele.Full Text Word Count:141D

Career move. (17 Jun 2006)
This article announces the resignation of Judith Morgan as a consultant nurse for ambulatory and emergency services at Old church Hospital in Romford, Essex in England in November 2005. Morgan will be taking up post at Bro Morgannwg National Health Service Trust. Morgan is also the British Royal College of Nursing Emergency Care Association newsletter editor.Full Text Word Count:57Da

School nurses face poor pay and career prospects. (17 Jun 2006)
Deals with problems in school nursing in Great Britain, according to a survey carried out by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN). Career prospects of school nurses; Factors preventing school nurses from developing their role; Importance of school nurses to child care and public health, according to Fiona Smith, RCN adviser in children's nursing and young people's nursing.Full Text Word Count:379D

Currency competition. (17 Jun 2006)
The article discusses competition among the world's main reserve currency. In the past 30 years, the dollar has had four bouts of marked depreciation. During the most recent, which began in 2002, it has fallen by 28% against the euro and by 14% against a broad basket of currencies. Even so, 66% of the world's official foreign-exchange holdings are still in dollars, compared with 25% in euros, 4% in yen and 3% in pounds, according to figures published last week by the IMF. America's current-account deficit is its highest on record, its net foreign liabilities are also close to an all-time high, and foreign central banks seem to have reduced their purchases of American Treasuries. If this trend continues, other currencies could one day challenge the dollar's dominance. The likeliest pretender to the dollar's crown is the euro. Reserve currencies need to have a home economy with a large share of global output, trade and finance. America's economy still dominates, but the euro area is not much smaller. The euro area's total trade with the rest of the world is about as big as America's; about half of this trade is invoiced in euros. The financial market of the reserve currency country must also be deep, open and well developed. America leads the euro area by most measures, but the creation of the single currency has helped to integrate Europe's financial markets. Barry Eichengreen of the University of California at Berkeley argues that whether the dollar retains its reserve-currency role depends mostly on America's own policies. Another view, offered by Mr Eichengreen, is that the world might eventually have more than one main reserve currency.Full Text Word Count:993D

Blogging Down the Money Trail. (cover story) (17 Jun 2006)
Focuses on the use of blogs to U.S. political candidates. Background on the first liberal blog MyDD launched by Jerome Armstrong, a graduate student at Portland State University in Oregon, in June 2001; Overview of the campaign of Paul Hackett, the Democrat's candidate for the Ohio congressional seat, in 2005; Information on several lessons learned from using blogs in political campaigns.Full Text Word Count:3228

One Hand Helps the Other: Why Women Need to Make Good Connections and Use Them to Help Other Women Up the Career Ladder. (17 Jun 2006)
Focuses on the importance of mentoring to the career path of women employees in U.S. correctional institutions. Benefits offered by mentors; Differences between male and female managers; Capabilities of women correctional personnel.Full Text Word Count:1933

GROWING A Career. (17 Jun 2006)
The article presents information on career opportunities in horticultural technology. A degree in horticultural technology does not guarantee success but gives the education and training to be competitive in the field. $8 to $10 per hour is the average wage for horticulturists. Community gardens can provide experience to aspiring horticulturists.Full Text Word Count:1310

Dialing Into a Radio Career. (17 Jun 2006)
The article presents recommendations on working in radio stations. The internship of the author in a radio station has given him an opportunity to interact with professionals and get noticed. There is a need to take a four-year degree in college before pursuing a career in radio broadcasting. It also features radio station jobs, including the sale of commercial time to advertisers.Full Text Word Count:1425

WASTING MONEY ON YOUR WIRELESS PLAN? (17 Jun 2006)
This article focuses on several methods of spending less on cell phone usage. The user must figure out the primary purpose of his cell phone. Friends and family must subscribe to the same service. It is important to monitor the usage of one's cell phone. A prepaid plan must be considered by customers.Full Text Word Count:308D

JUMP-STARTING CAREERS. (17 Jun 2006)
This article provides information on MBA Jumpstart, a pre-Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) program for graduate school candidates accepted to top business schools. Elton Ndoma-Ogar, an equity sales trader with Morgan Stanley Equities, offered a statement on the benefits from joining the program. There are other programs that support minority candidates of M.B.A.Full Text Word Count:366D

Driving the money down. (cover story) (17 Jun 2006)
This article discusses the move of state and local governments in the U.S. to fight for their shares of the newly appropriated federal transportation funding as of October 2005. With roads and bridges crumbling all over the nation, earmarking federal funds for projects such as the $230 million "bridge to nowhere" in rural Alaska makes little sense. Also questionable is dedicating $800,000 toward a plan to enclose a 1.5-mile-long, 300-foot-wide stretch of the Eisenhower Expressway just outside Chicago. New York State received the second highest number of special projects, with 494 totaling $990 million. While the projects may serve the state's urban areas with road upgrades and rail and mass transit projects, in other areas of the state, bridges and roads will suffer because of a lack of attention.Full Text Word Count:2064

Please send money. (17 Jun 2006)
This article reports on the efforts of Gulf Coast government leaders to call for a major federal investment to help rebuild communities ravaged by the hurricanes in 2005. The back-to-back storms, Katrina and Rita, not only flooded New Orleans and wiped out small towns along the coast from Alabama to Texas, but also have overburdened the social services infrastructure of neighboring communities where evacuees took refuge. The hurricanes also have prompted Congress to focus on disaster-related legislation, such as a bill to accelerate disaster aid to state and local governments and a measure that would allocate $400 million to buy communications equipment for first responders.Full Text Word Count:514D

SUBMIT OR RESIST: LIBRARIANSHIP IN THE AGE OF GOOGLE. (17 Jun 2006)
Discusses the importance of user education in the efforts of librarians to avoid marginalization. Identification of mechanisms to integrate library content into consumer search engines; Significance of metasearching; Limitations of the Google search engine.Full Text Word Count:3074

REACH NEW CAREER HEIGHTS. (17 Jun 2006)
This article presents ways to enhance the leadership skills of teachers. Whether you strive to be a reading coach, curriculum planner, or, simply, a more effective classroom teacher, one of our career-boosting ideas can show everyone what we already know: You're at the head of your class. Several ideas includes spearheading a program in the school and organizing a teacher team for a local charity run or walk.Full Text Word Count:1126

Google sued for copyright infringement. (17 Jun 2006)
The article reports that Google is facing the wrath of thousands of authors in a class action suit filed against the Internet search engine last month over its unauthorized digital scanning of books which it plans to make publicly accessible online. The Authors Guild, the largest U.S. association of some 8,000 published authors and writers, filed the suit together with three individual authors in the Manhattan Federal Court on September 20, accusing Google of massive copyright infringement at the expense of individual writers.Full Text Word Count:527D

MONEY WATCH. (17 Jun 2006)
Presents news briefs relating to money and business in the U.S. Possible implications of a shake-up at software giant Microsoft; Highlights of the company's reorganization; How U.S. consumers could save on credit card finance charges by slightly improving their credit scores; Outlook for early holiday bargains, as retailers are expected to discount products aggressively throughout the shopping season.Full Text Word Count:462D

Disaster-proofing your career. (17 Jun 2006)
Focuses on managing career risk. Observation that most people don't spend time planning for career disasters, like being fired without warning; Book written by career coach Cynthia Shapiro, "Corporate Confidential: 50 Secrets Your Company Doesn't Want You to Know--and What to Do About Them"; Suggestions for keeping one's job, including figuring out what employers really care about, not just what they tell you, getting along with and supporting one's employer, and being enthusiastic about the company.Full Text Word Count:549D

Managing Google's Idea Factory. (17 Jun 2006)
Profiles Marissa Mayer, director of consumer Web products for Google Incorporated. Work of Mayer with Google co-founders Larry E. Page and Sergey Brin; Importance of innovation at Google; Discussion of Mayer's success at Google; Role of Mayer in managing creativity within Google. INSET: How Google Innovates.Full Text Word Count:2416

THE EXPERTS' GUIDE TO GOOGLE, YAHOO!, MSN AND AOL. (17 Jun 2006)
The article presents information on the four largest Web portals AOL, Google, MSN and Yahoo! These sites have a whole lot more than search. The basic services We search, Web mail and instant messaging (IM) are free on these sites, but choosing one, especially in the case of mail and IM, requires a commitment. People can't find out if one keeps changing addresses, and one will want to be on the same IM network as friends. Often, dozens of cool features that are just a click or two away from the site's home page. They include useful site personalization, strong financial tools and a broad range of discussion groups. The term portal may have gone out of style, but that's what these sites really are, not just destinations, but doorways.Full Text Word Count:603D

Baseball: Money Can't Buy Me Wins. (17 Jun 2006)
This article states that big salary spending is not an assurance for victory in the Major League Baseball (MLB) in the U.S. MLB owners once again have proved that the most successful teams on the field are not necessarily the ones with the biggest bank vaults. Sure, franchises with money to burn have an edge over those forced to live on a tight budget. The New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox, ranked number 1 and 2, respectively, in the payroll sweepstakes in 2005, could underscore that point if either makes it to the World Series. However, among the other teams in the playoffs, the San Diego Padres ranked 16th in salaries, the Chicago White Sox 13th, the Houston Astros were 12th, and the Los Angeles Angels were 4th. To be a winner, franchises also need savvy management, discerning talent evaluators, and when all else fails, a large dose of luck.Full Text Word Count:929D

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