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Whose Money Advice Do Teens Trust? (17 Jun 2006)
This section offers information on where teenagers turn for financial advice. A recent study found that the degree to which teenagers trust different sources varies by race. Another survey shows men and women to be financially inept in roughly equal numbers.Full Text Word Count:93Da

Injection of Money. (17 Jun 2006)
The article analyzes various issues concerning the medical care of immigrants in the U.S. It provides information on the budget allocated by President George W. Bush for hospitals that provide care to unregistered immigrants. It discusses the findings of a study on uninsured immigrants, published by the Employee Benefit Research Institute in June 2005. The article also presents the views of Kathryn Stewart, medical affairs director at Mount Sinai Hospital, on the budget for immigrant medical services.Full Text Word Count:646D

Your Money. (17 Jun 2006)
Focuses on issues related to personal finance in the U.S. Increase in social security benefits in January 2006; Rate of increase in the number of households with a net worth of more than $1 million in 2005; Failure of health care consumers to predict the cost of a four-day hospital stay.Full Text Word Count:178D

Tim Herron's keys to making the money putts. (17 Jun 2006)
The article presents golf player Tim Herron's tips for hitting the birdie putts in the game of golf. According to him, the most important thing one can do is hit the putt solid. When one hits a putt flush, it makes a different sound. It also helps to practice them a lot. At the Buick Championship in August 2005, he didn't hit a practice ball all week.Full Text Word Count:251D

Google's open skies raise cries. (17 Jun 2006)
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Beyond Clouds of Memory: Akio Takamori, A Mid-Career Survey. (17 Jun 2006)
The article reviews the exhibition "Beyond Clouds of Memory: Akio Takamori, A Mid-Career Survey," at the Arizona State University Art Museum in Tempe, Arizona through January 14, 2006.Full Text Word Count:1179

IN THE MONEY. (17 Jun 2006)
The article answers a question on where to begin a search for companies in the institutional investing career field and qualifications to enter the career and whether it is wise to go back to school to get a masters in business administration (MBA) degree first. To reach your maximum potential in terms of position and salary, you will have to return to school to earn an MBA.Full Text Word Count:267D

Google Makes Its First Public Domain Books Available Online. (17 Jun 2006)
The article reports on the availability of Google's public domain books online in November 2005. The works are fully searchable and users can save individual page images. The titles include U.S. Civil War history books, government documents, and the writings of Henry James. Google also announced that it would soon end its three-month moratorium on scanning copyrighted materials.Full Text Word Count:492D

ANERA Pledges to Raise More Money to Aid Palestinian Projects. (17 Jun 2006)
This article reports that the American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA) hosted its annual dinner on September 17, 2005 in Washington D.C. Founded in 1968, ANERA has worked with 3.2 million Palestinians under occupation, 60 percent of whom live below the poverty line on less than $2 a day. Last year ANERA distributed more than $13 million in medical and relief supplies, including daily nutritional snacks to preschoolers. At the dinner, ANERA honored many of its loyal long-term donors, including Marjorie Anderson, a retired teacher from Pennsylvania, and retired Ambassador Richard Parker of Washington, D.C.Full Text Word Count:326D

save searching time with Google shortcuts. (17 Jun 2006)
The article focuses on several searching features being offered by search engine Google. The search engine provides definitions for words which are significant to reading a technical literature online. Among the advanced math tasks that can be performed using the Google calculator are logarithms and factorial. Currency conversion is provided in the Google Currency Conversion system.Full Text Word Count:771D

Ivory-bill Takes Perch on Money Tree. (17 Jun 2006)
Focuses on the funds allocated by the U.S. government for ivory-billed woodpecker recovery in the country. Total amount to be given by the government for the project; Rank of the conservation project in government bird spending; Estimated amount spent by federal and state governments on recovery efforts and land purchases for species and subspecies protected by the Endangered Species Act.Full Text Word Count:253D

my BRIEF career in the RECORD industry. (17 Jun 2006)
The article reflects on producing a concert DVD for No Speed Limit, an up-and-coming bluegrass band in the U.S. The author suggested that the band sell the DVD alongside their studio CD. It compares the concert audio CD with the studio-produced CD. It lists the costs for duplicating the DVD, including the ink. It relates his failure to include the cost of handling anticipated DVD failures.Full Text Word Count:946D

Google ready to fight genericization. (17 Jun 2006)
The article reports that Google Inc. has revealed that it is considering placing advertisements to prevent the erosion of its brand. Genericization is a concern and something the company has to face, said Rose Hagan, head of Google's legal team. The company hasn't got to the point of running an advertisement yet, like Xerox Corp., but it is definitely something it does consider. Google monitors dictionaries and the press and sends letters correcting misuse of the trademark. Genericization can occur when a trademark is used as a verb or generic term to describe a category.Full Text Word Count:335D

Formalise your skills and money can grow on trees. (17 Jun 2006)
The article focuses on arboriculture courses offered in Great Britain. Farm income can be increased through setting up a tree care specialist. According to Steve Tinkler, arboriculture lecturer at Houghall College near Durham, England, 95% of arboriculture students of the college found work straight after leaving the institution. There are six arboriculture/woodland courses available at the college.Full Text Word Count:433D

For Love & Money. (17 Jun 2006)
The article reflects on the historic transformation in marriage that has long-term implications for economic equality in the society. There has been a profound change in the nature of marriage. It used to be a democratic institution and is becoming a form of privilege open chiefly to the elite. The restructuring of the economy contributed to the growing marriage gap. One way to narrow the marriage gap is to increase opportunities for young people and especially for lower-income young men to get four-year college degrees.Full Text Word Count:876D

Poison Revives Pianist's Career. (17 Jun 2006)
Presents information on how Botox injections relieved Musician Leon Fleisher of focal dystonia.Full Text Word Count:392D

$3-Million Gift From Google Jump-Starts Library of Congress's Effort to Build a Digital Archive of Cultural Artifacts. (17 Jun 2006)
This article reports that the Library of Congress began a campaign to raise money for the World Digital Library, a proposed online archive of international cultural artifacts, by announcing in November 2005 a $3-million grant from its first patron: Google, the search engine turned information monolith. The project was first proposed in June 2005 by James H. Billington, librarian of Congress, in a speech to the U.S. National Commission for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.Full Text Word Count:362D

A Risky Gamble With Google. (17 Jun 2006)
This article reports that Google Inc., the Mountain View, California, company flying high off a huge initial public offering of stock and astounding quarterly revenues, announced late last year that it would digitize millions of bound books from five major English-language libraries. It plans to make available online the full text of public-domain books and excerpts from works still in copyright. Harvard University will allow Google to scan 40,000 books during the pilot phase of the project, and the number may grow. The library has more than 15 million volumes. The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor has agreed to let Google scan its entire collection, some 7.8 million works, and Stanford University says it is keeping open the possibility of including potentially millions of its more than eight million volumes. The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford will allow Google to scan public-domain books, which it says are principally those published before 1920. Google is doing all the scanning and optical-character recognition with a secret proprietary machine and promises not to damage the pages or bindings.Full Text Word Count:4832

Money on trees. (17 Jun 2006)
This article focuses on the Kyoto protocol on curbing greenhouse gas emissions. A group of 10 developing nations have posed a question at international climate negotiations that how much is a rainforest worth. The Kyoto protocol provides incentives for planting new forests to soak up carbon dioxide, in the form of carbon credits that can be offset against emissions. One hundred and ninety governments gathered in Montreal, Quebec, to finalise the Kyoto rule book and to begin discussions on what should replace it after 2012. Simon Counsell of the London, England-based Rainforest Foundation warns that much deforestation is illegal.Full Text Word Count:195D

MONEY WATCH. (17 Jun 2006)
The article presents news briefs related to economic activity in the United States. It is forecasted by the National Retail Federation that holiday spending will increase six percent overall in 2005 compared to the year before. Capital spending on new plants and equipment by Standard & Poor 500 companies has increased. For 14 consecutive years, money manager Bill Miller of the Legg Mason Value Trust fund has bested the Standard & Poor's 500 index.Full Text Word Count:479D

MAD MONEY. (cover story) (17 Jun 2006)
Suggests five ways to have some real fun with disposable income. Pursuits include creating your own personal theme part, becoming a film producer, opening a nightclub, launching your own fashion brand, and owning one of the estimated 130 copies of the world's most valuable comic book, "Action Comics No. 1," published in 1938.Full Text Word Count:730D

OLD MONEY, NEW MONEY. (cover story) (17 Jun 2006)
Introduces a series of articles on the richest people in Canada. The task of estimating personal fortunes and digging up new names for the list was undertaken by senior associate editor Alex Mlynek, senior writer Zena Olijnyk, staff writer Calvin Leung, and associate editors Claire Gagné and Michelle Magnan. Alongside this year's ranking are profiles of the newest members of the Rich 100 as well as some updates and features on a few familiar faces. The research staff spent the past few months studying proxies, insider trading reports, news articles and other sources to estimate the net worth of Canada's corporate elite.Full Text Word Count:267D

GOOGLE, THE SAVIOR OF MAGAZINES? (17 Jun 2006)
The article reports that Google Inc. is buying up print advertisements, despite widespread concern about advertising shifting to the Internet. The author reviews how the company has purchased advertisements in "Maximum PC," "PC Magazine," and "Budget Living." The advertising space purchased by Google was resold to companies that buy key words next to Google Web searches. According to the author, the company will use its buying clout to pull in a new breed of marketers that have avoided pricey print advertisements in the past.Full Text Word Count:239D

Harris To Give Cunningham-Tied Money To Charity. (17 Jun 2006)
The article reports that Representative Katherine Harris of Florida on Saturday said that she plans to donate to charity $51,000 in contributions linked to former Representative Randy Cunningham. Since 2002, federal records show, owners and employees of two companies identified in Cunningham's indictment, MZM Inc. and ADCS Inc., have pumped the money into Harris' campaign.Full Text Word Count:96Da

FAKE GOOGLE TOOLBARS GO PHISHING. (17 Jun 2006)
This article reports on a new threat involving malicious links to bogus Google software that spreads via IM and Internet Relay Chat. The threat appears to be a variety of the infamous CoolWebSearch browser-hijacking phishing scheme. In these cases, IM users unwittingly download a rogue Google toolbar, which is installed in their Web browsers. The only working feature on the fake toolbar saves credit card details.Full Text Word Count:116D

Can Google Go Glossy? (17 Jun 2006)
The article discusses the factors affecting the slow start of the plan of Google to resell print advertisements. Print advertisements make a lot of sense for Google. However, the company is facing challenges regarding the launch of their plan. Foremost, most magazine advertisements are not geared toward direct marketers, which constitute the bulk of Google's advertisers.Full Text Word Count:1175

No More "Easy Money" in Europe. (17 Jun 2006)
This article predicts that 2006 will be a harder year for the European economy. The impressive gains made by major European indexes this year have topped those made on the other side of the Atlantic. But they would not continue through 2006, predicts Clive McDonnell, Standard & Poor's European equity strategist, who says markets will suffer because of increases in benchmark bond yields and interest rates as the global economy heads for a slowdown in 2007. In his 2006 market preview, McDonnell and his London-based team of analysts forecast a 7% fall in the S&P Europe 350 index for the year. McDonnell also addressed the "futility" of media acquisitions by telecommunication outfits, why telecom equipment manufacturers stand to gain from the telecommunication wars, and why strong growth in 2006 would not help the market.Full Text Word Count:1470

Good Work Attracts Good Money. (17 Jun 2006)
The article presents an opinion on the staffing patterns of community foundations in the United States based on the results of an examination of the staff composition of 20 randomly selected foundations. Some assume that such foundations are staffed by community people based on the slogans they hear. Those foundations have an average of nine employees apiece. Community foundations believed that they needed to lower their fees in order to compete with private institutions.Full Text Word Count:998D

Tsunami Donations: Money Raised and Spent. (17 Jun 2006)
The article lists the charities that have raised donations for the victims of the Indian Ocean Tsunami in December 2004. The American Red Cross has raised $567.3 million to provide food, shelter and vaccination for children. The World Vision has raised $246 million to provide food and water and offer programs to help tsunami victims with hygiene. The U.S. Fund for United Nations Children's Fund has raised $137 million to provide for the basic needs of the victims and to rebuild schools.Full Text Word Count:1289

When school children need to raise money for a field trip, they might sponsor a bake sale or, better yet, a raffle. (17 Jun 2006)
The article reports that Orange County Community College, in New York, is running a raffle to help its cash-strapped technology office pay for some $200,000 of wireless-networking hardware. The offer is made for $5 apiece, through which entrants can buy chances to win a pricey custom-built motorcycle that the university bought from Orange County Choppers, a local company. According to James M. Dutcher, the college's associate vice president for information technology, this moneymaking strategy is a bit unusual. The students also have a role in making their plan happen.Full Text Word Count:296D

There's money in mopping. (17 Jun 2006)
The article reports on union activity in Houston, in light of last week's announcement that nearly 5,000 janitors joined the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Julius Getman, a professor at the University of Texas, thinks it is the largest union victory in the South in decades. The SEIU takes a different approach to organising. Rather than mounting a campaign at each workplace separately, it will negotiate one big industry-wide contract. The strategy bypasses the National Labour Relations Board, which usually oversees the unionisation of workers. That is a bonus in a place like Houston, where undocumented workers would rather not get the government involved. Whether the Houston milestone will lead to other triumphs in the South is an open question. Nonetheless, it is a small boost for a movement that has been going through tough times recently. Union membership is in steep decline in the private sector. This summer the SEIU and a few other unions split from the AFL-CIO, America's big labour federation. Since then, the SEIU has been pursuing new strategies to boost its membership.Full Text Word Count:443D

GOOGLE SERVICE DEBUTS, COULD SHAKE UP SECTOR. (17 Jun 2006)
The article reports on the new online job listing service launched by Google as of December 12, 2005. Just hours after search giant Google launched its new listings service last month, bloggers and recruitment professionals were already attempting to predict what it means for the Monsters and CareerBuilders of the world.Full Text Word Count:519D

Can Google Go Glossy? (17 Jun 2006)
This article discusses Google's sale of print ad space in various magazines to its customers to run ads for themselves. Google has been buying up space in periodicals and divvying it up into small pieces for sale. To date, many of the advertisers have said that response to their ads is so poor that it will not pay for itself. The magazine ads aren't read by the same type of people who use the online sites for purchases. INSET: Extra! Google Tries Selling Magazine Ads.Full Text Word Count:1327

Google Goes to the Dolls. (17 Jun 2006)
The article reports on a study of Web searches in 2005, conducted by online research company Hitwise. Search engines and directories contributed to visits to the shopping and classifieds category of shopping sites for the week ending December 3, 2005. Hitwise also identified the most searched products, such as toys and electronics. Hitwise recommends to search engines the provision of comparison search capabilities.Full Text Word Count:259D

Google. (17 Jun 2006)
The article describes the marketing strategy of Internet service provider Google. The company has offered free services, including Gmail, in an effort to diversify its offerings. It reported a revenue increase in the third quarter of 2005. Consumers love the company because its services are clean, fast and easy.Full Text Word Count:181D

Rock's Big-Money Collectors. (17 Jun 2006)
The article provides information on the top five collectors of high-end music memorabilia. Paul Allen, Microsoft Corp. co-founder, paid millions to stock the Experience Music Project with more than 80,000 rock artifacts, including Eric Clapton's "Brownie" guitar, Bob Dylan's Martin guitar from his early days in New York and thousands of key rock posters. Investor David Swartz owns nine Pete Townshend guitars and nine John Entwistle bass guitars. Andy Geller's, voice-over artist for ABC television, Beatles collection is worth more than $2 million. His prized possessions include a chunk of wall from the Ed Sullivan Theater signed by the four Beatles.Full Text Word Count:311D

Burns To Return Abramoff Money. (17 Jun 2006)
The article reports that U.S. Senator Conrad Burns will return about $150,000 in campaign donations he has received from indicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, his co-workers and tribal clients. Burns, who is up for re-election in 2006, received more Abramoff-related campaign contributions than any other lawmaker between 1999 and 2004. The announcement comes just two days after a Burns spokesman said the senator would not return the money because it had already been spent. The reimbursements will come from his $3 million campaign treasury.Full Text Word Count:192D

Rice Asks Appropriations Chairmen For More Darfur Money. (17 Jun 2006)
The article reports that citing a "critical need of funding" to continue U.S. support of the African Union's peacekeeping mission in Sudan, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has asked the Congress for $50 million to sustain the operation there. The House International Relations Committee is considering legislation to beef up sanctions against elements of Sudan's government, charging that Darfurians have suffered from acts of genocide. Rice also told the chairmen that the presence of approximately 7,000 African Union peacekeepers in Darfur has substantially reduced large-scale organized violence, though a recent upswing in violent attacks is of great concern.Full Text Word Count:313D

BREAKING UP WITH GOOGLE. (17 Jun 2006)
The article discusses the media criticisms against Google's extravagant successes. Google's stock price was $416, up more than 300% since it launched its initial public offering in 2004. According to Google CEO Eric Schmidt, the innovative ideas of his employees is the key to the success of Google. A story was published in "The Wall Street Journal" about the purchase of a Boeing 767 by Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page.Full Text Word Count:924D

MONEY WATCH. (17 Jun 2006)
This article reports on money-related business news. Faced with shrinking market share and rising costs, Ford is considering cutting around 30,000 jobs over a span of a few years, much like General Motors plans to do. Over a span of two decades, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has risen an average of 2.3 percent in the month of December.Full Text Word Count:468D

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