Thomson Announces US$800 Million Note Offering (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) The Thomson Corporation , one of the world's leading providers of electronic solutions, software and services to business and professional customers, today announced the offering of US$800 million of notes due October 1, 2014....more...Ensley: Even in a Google world, there's nothing like World Book (Tallahassee Democrat) An old friend left the building last week: our World Book encyclopedias....more... Law and Utilities (In Business Las Vegas) Law school may be an increasingly unpopular choice for recent college grads, but that hasn't stopped UNLV's Boyd School of Law from recruiting one of its smartest and most diverse incoming classes in its history....more... Events (Daily Southtown) The Art Institute of Chicago - 111 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago; (312) 443-3600. Hours are 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays to Wednesdays; 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays....more... Smart school has high-tech classrooms (Hammond Daily Star) The Southeastern Lab School is a four-star school, but the principal won't be satisfied until the school is a blue-ribbon school, a much higher standard....more... George Saunders talks fiction, Vonnegut, Johnny Tremain and his new essay collection The Braindead Megaphone. (Pittsburgh City Paper) "I suddenly could program the VCR, because I was a genius." By Bill O'Driscoll....more... LOCAL NEWS (Daily Record) The Katharine D. Malone School was born in the 1950s out of the great migration of city dwellers to the suburbs....more... Santa Rosa Co. book goes national ? next overseas? (Northwest Florida Daily News) MILTON ? The Santa Rosa County-produced book ?Freedom? is getting new life outside Northwest Florida....more... Experts Say Explosives In Car Trunk Were Unlikely To Harm Naval Station (The Tampa Tribune) TAMPA - When two Egyptian students at the University of South Florida were charged with having explosives in their trunk, a South Carolina sheriff said the men may have targeted a nearby naval weapons station....more... |