Commercial real estate gets worse (USA Today)

August 17, 2009

The commercial real estate downturn is deepening, threatening to slow the economic recovery.

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Improvements (Sidney Herald)

August 17, 2009

Dropping by Sidney High School during any part of the summer, visitors would see a virtual ant hill-like atmosphere. Workers have been busy reconstructing the 200 wing, office, main hallway and new art room, gearing up for the new school year.

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Summer school goes virtual (The Record and Herald News)

August 17, 2009

A growing number of teens are logging on to computer terminals to re-take the classes they flunked this spring. But some educators are skeptical about the programs.

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PGA champ is farmer’s son who picked up golf at 19 (AP via Yahoo! News)

August 17, 2009

Baseball, basketball, soccer, volleyball. Y.E. Yang played them all as a child.

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PGA champ is farmer’s son who picked up golf at 19 (AP via Yahoo! News)

August 17, 2009

Y.E. Yang was already 19 when he first picked up an iron at the country club where he had a low-wage job shagging golf balls. He practiced late into the night after the paying customers had gone until he became good enough to turn pro.

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‘Mad Men’ returns, fit for runway, retail (San Jose Mercury News)

August 17, 2009

From runways to mass retail and the virtual world, AMC’s ‘Mad Men’ set in early ’60s New York, which premiered its third season Sunday, has put pencil skirts and skinny ties back in full rotation.

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Health care reach expands with wireless monitoring (CNN)

August 17, 2009

Cardiologist Steven Greenberg keeps tabs on his patients around the clock, but he doesn’t have to lose much sleep to do so.

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Smartphone wars – BlackBerry’s plan to win (CNN Money)

August 17, 2009

For two Canadian guys who’ve spent the past 17 years together building one of the world’s most important tech companies, Research in Motion co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis have surprisingly little in common.

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Cellcom Israel Announces Second Quarter 2009 Results and Strengthens its Position as the Market Leader (redOrbit)

August 17, 2009

NETANYA, Israel, August 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — – 15.0%(1) Increase in Net Income With an Increase in Operating Income and EBITDA; – Profitability Growth, Despite the Ongoing Economic Slowdown, Price Erosions and Growing Competition; – EBITDA(2) Up by 2.9%(3); EBITDA Margin of 39.6% – Cellcom Israel Declares a Second Quarter Dividend of NIS 3.05 per Share (Totals Approx.

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The greatest open source software of all time (InfoWorld via Yahoo! News)

August 17, 2009

Every year InfoWorld painstakingly selects its Bossie Award winners — the best open source software for business — and every year we have shamefully neglected the very cream of the open source crop.

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