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Jan 27 News

• View Writing and Publishing headlines on HDLNS.com

  HDLNS.com is the easiest to use aggregated content RSS Reader on the net. No need to sign up, nothing to remember. Just browse and read. (read)

• Investigation Into Online Discount Practices Includes Barnes & Noble

  Extract not available. (read)

• King Graphic Biography'>Fantagraphics to Release Special Edition of King Gr

  Fantagraphics to Release Special Edition of King Graphic Biography By Calvin Reid -- Publishers Weekly, 1/25/2010 2:56:00 PM Originally published in three volumes released between 1993 and 2003, King, Ho Che Andersons much acclaimed graphic biography (read)

• Apple IPad Charges at Kindle and Netbooks

  Extract not available. (read)

• TNG-CWA: Bonuses for Mid-level Managers Approved at Tribune Co., No Decisio

  Judge Kevin Carey approved $45.6 million in bonuses for some 700 Tribune Company executives today in federal bankruptcy court in Wilmington. However, the judge took no action on two other components of the bonus program which would have meant more th (read)

• DVD alert ...

  ... The Evelyn Waugh Collection (Scoop and A Handful of Dust). (Hat tip, Paul Davis.)I have a copy of A Handful of Dust. I think it's a terrible adaptation. A better bet is the Sword of Honor trilogy starring Daniel Craig. (read)

• Tribute to Carl Perkins

  With the inestimable Billy Troianni on vocals.He Wrote Blue Suede Shoes (read)

• Three Reasons Why the iPad WONT Kill Amazons Kindle

  It may be suddenly fashionable to say so, but the new Apple iPad tablet won't kill the Kindle from Amazon. Here are three reasons. My colleague, Nick Bilton, has from the opposite side. Please add your thoughts in the comments section below. The Kind (read)

• Barnes & Noble: Co Hasn't Shared Data With Discount Clubs

  Barnes & Noble Inc. (BKS) confirmed it received a subpoena involving an investigation into alleged online retail fraud, although the company stressed it doesn't turn over personal or credit-card information to online discount clubs. 'Customers sh (read)

• Baylor medical school to stay independent

  Baylor College of Medicine will remain an independent medical school, its trustee board unanimously decided today, effectively ending the possibility it would get back together with former parent institution Baylor University. 'These months of (read)

• TNG-CWA: Bonuses for Mid-level Managers Approved at Tribune Co., No Decisio

  Extract not available. (read)

• Apple's Tablet E-Book App Rips off Indie Dev's Creation

  We love the iPhone book-reading app Classics, and apparently Apple does, too. The iPad tablet includes an app called iBooks, and its similarities to Classics are beyond the realm of coincidence. The UI is the same idea: a shelf of books that you c (read)

• Apple's iPad no Kindle killer - yet

  The buzz in the gadget world has shifted from Amazon to Apple with the launch of its long-awaited iPad tablet, but analysts say the world's largest retailer's Kindle device is safe in its smaller market - for now. Industry watchers had speculated for (read)

• $T Does the Apple iPad threaten the Amazon Kindle?

  Analysts say Apple's new tablet could pressure ereaders. (read)

• Apple's iPad: Kindle Killer?

  Now that details of the iPad, Appleâs latest gizmo, are finally out, industry watchers are wondering how the new tablet will affect Amazonâs leading e-reader device, the Kindle. Naming the Kindle specifically, Appleâs celebrity CEO, Steve Jobs, sa (read)

• Barnes & Noble: Co Hasn't Shared Data With Discount Clubs

  dow jones newswires barnes & noble inc. (bks) confirmed it received a subpoena involving an investigation into alleged online retail fraud, although the company stressed it doesn't turn over personal or credit-card information to online discount (read)

• New Layman book reviews posted

  DISCLAIMER: The Layman Online is a news and information resource. We welcome letters and commentaries from readers. Letters and commentaries are selected for publication based on their clarity and brevity, subject to editing, and also are chosen to (read)

• Books of The Times: Odysseus Engages in Spin, Heroically

  An ingeniously Borgesian series of jazzy, post-modernist variations on 'The Odyssey' that are witty, playful, moving and tirelessly inventive. (read)

• Louis Auchincloss, Chronicler of New York's Upper Crust, Dies at 92

  Mr. Auchincloss was one of America's pre-eminent novelists of manners and a portraitist of wealthy, white Manhattanites. (read)

• IMD featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Economist and other leading pu

  IMD Professors Jean-François Manzoni and Paul Strebel together with Research Fellow Jean-Louis Barsoux have written an article on diversity on corporate boards which was published in the January 25th edition of The Wall Street Journal. In the articl (read)

• McClatchy cost cuts lead to profit; debt deal seen

  McClatchy Co. reported a profit for the fourth quarter on Wednesday and said most of its lenders agreed to give the newspaper publisher more time to repay its debts. The deal gives the company more room to maneuver through an advertising slump that h (read)

• The New York Times demos a reader app for Apples iPad tablet

  Folks from the have joined Steve Jobs for a demo at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco where Apple held a media event earlier today to launch its much-anticipated portable multimedia device called the iPad. A number of other third-p (read)

• InstallFree Receives 2009 Product of the Year Award Presented by Customer I

  STAMFORD, CT -- (Marketwire) -- 01/26/10 -- InstallFree, Inc., developer of platform application virtualization solutions for enterprise desktop environments, today announced that its InstallFree Bridge product has received a 2009 Product of the Year (read)

• McClatchy moves to profit; shares jump 12%

  Shares of newspaper publisher McClatchy Co. rose 12% after it swung to a fourth-quarter profit and said it sees evidence of a recovery in classified advertising. In a Wednesday statement, McClatchy also said creditors holding most of its debt will le (read)

• The McClatchy Company. Q4 2009 Earnings Call Transcript

  Good morning. My name is Courtney and I'll be your conference operator today. At this time I'd like to welcome everyone to the McClatchy Fourth Quarter 2009 Earnings Conference Call. (Operator Instructions). Ms. Elaine Lintecum, you may begin your (read)

• Apple Working Closely With Barnes & Noble For The Tablet? (AAPL, BKS)

  Apple is working closely with Barnes & Noble in some capacity for the launch of the tablet, Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch reports : We believe there is a good chance there will be a Barnes & Noble bookstore built into the Apple Tablet, either as o (read)

• Strategic Book Group Author, Steve G. Jones, Announces Scheduled TV & Book

  Strategic Book Group Author, Steve G. Jones, Announces Scheduled TV & Book Signing Appearances Date: Thursday, February 25, 2010 - Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm - Location: WCNC-TV, Charlotte Today, Charlotte , North Carolina & 2nd Event - Time: 6:00pm - (read)

• Shuttle launch set Feb. 7 with just 5 missions left

  Senior managers met Wednesday and decided unanimously to proceed toward a Feb. 7 launch date for Endeavour. (read)

• Madoff Trustee Announces Settlement of $220 Million

  NEW YORK, Jan. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Irving H. Picard, the SIPA Trustee for the liquidation of the substantively consolidated estates of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC ('BLMIS') and Bernard L. Madoff, announced that he has entered into an (read)

• A Pathway to Enactment of Health Reform

  WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement of Ralph G. Neas, CEO NCHC Action Fund: Good morning! On behalf of this extraordinary coalition of coalitions, welcome to our press conference. My name is Ralph G. Neas, Chie (read)

• SIIA Announces Major Anti-Piracy Win in Kaplan vs. Chou

  $400,000 Judgment Handed Down Against Medical Student Who Became Leading Online Seller of Counterfeit Test Prep Materials WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) today announced that a New (read)

• Hudson City Bancorp, Inc. To Present At The Morgan Stanley U.S. Financials

  PARAMUS, N.J., Jan. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Hudson City Bancorp, Inc. (HCBK), announced today that it will participate in the Morgan Stanley U.S. Financials Conference on Tuesday, February 2, 2010. Ronald E. Hermance, Jr., Hudson City's Chairman (read)

• The Huntress: Sew Crafty helps you create projects for the runway

  Sew Crafty, a hip sewing and craft lounge in the Heights, hosts classes for varying skill levels in do-it-yourself hobbies such as knitting and crocheting. The popular two-hour Intro to Sewing class teaches basic stitching skills and sewing machine (read)

• HarQen Raises $2.7MM for Next Generation Voice Platform

  MILWAUKEE, Jan. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- HarQen, a leading platform developer powering asynchronous voice applications, announced today that they have completed their Series A financing. The Milwaukee-based company lists as its investors Phenomenelle Angel (read)

• Judge lets Tribune pay $45M in exec bonuses

  Extract not available. (read)

• L.A. Times gunning for me

  A few hours before I dashed off this column, the L.A. Times published this story: 'Joseph Farah has found his calling in Obama-bashing.' I'll let you judge the paper's mission and motive. But, first, there's a story behind the story. I sat down for a (read)

• McClatchy Jumps on First-Quarter Ad Sales Forecast (Update1)

  Jan. 27 (Bloomberg) -- McClatchy Co., publisher of the Miami Herald and the Sacramento Bee newspapers, jumped the most in four months in New York trading after saying a decline in advertising sales would slow this quarter. The Sacramento, (read)

• McClatchy Announces Consents to Amend Its Credit Agreement

  SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan. 27 SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI) announced that lenders holding approximately 90% of the total commitments under the company's credit facility have consented to an (read)

• McClatchy Announces Debt Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation

  SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI) announced today that it has commenced an offer to purchase for cash (the 'Offer') any and all of its outstanding 7.125% notes due June 1, 2011 (the '2011 Notes') (read)

• Candor: Pam Bachorz

  Oscar Cambell is a model citizen, living in Candor, Florida; a planned community built by his father. With a waiting list of more than a year and a $1 million plus price tag, new people move to Candor, but nobody ever leaves. Candor is (read)

• mcxiv

  Dark Angel vs. The Flyswatter(aka The Casket Myth)After all, I am The Responsible One, butbiding time for brain readjustment can be a bitch!   For example, the world is now myoyster (or spreadsheet).   So I put on a suit and tie, (read)

• Israeli Exceptionalism Book Review

  By Ahrar Ahmad M. Shahid Alam. Israeli Exceptionalism: The Destabilizing Logic of Zionism (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) pp. 274. Dr. Shahid Alam is primarily an economist and an educator. But, he is also a public intellectual, and often a live (read)

• Fringing Medina

  Having spent most of Saturday in Corpus Christi with Debra Medina, the Republican's insurgent gubernatorial candidate, I was going over my notes this morning and came across this tidbit about this week's second Republican debate. We were sitting in a (read)

• Houston police puzzled by burglary suspect's death

  Authorities are asking the public to help them solve the death of a man who was apparently shot by a bystander during a robbery attempt at a gasoline station last summer. The shooting occurred at a station in the 700 block of Lathrop about 5:45 a.m. (read)

• Press Statement of Randall Terry regarding Scott Roeder's Trial: 1/27/10

  The 'Rule of Law' and the 'Law of Blood' What: Press Conference in front of Wichita Courthouse, Trial of David Roeder Time: 10 minutes after lunch recess. WICHITA, Kan., Jan. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following statement was released today by (read)

• Webcast Alert: Banco Bradesco S.A. Announces its Fourth Quarter 2009 Earnin

  SAO PAULO, Jan. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Banco Bradesco S.A. (BBD; BOVESPA: BBDC4; Latibex: XBBDC) announces the following webcast: What: 4Q09 Earnings Results of Banco Bradesco S.A. When: Friday, January 29, 2010 at 9:00 AM ET Where: (read)

• Justice Department Settlement with Nashville, Tennessee, Public Schools Wil

  WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Justice Department today announced that it has entered into a settlement agreement with the Metropolitan Government of Nashville, Tenn., and Davidson County, Tenn., to enhance the security of student (read)

• Reportlinker Adds Aluminium Alloy Sections Market Research in Russia

  NEW YORK, Jan. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Aluminium Alloy Sections Market Research in Russia (read)

• Publishers Meet the BLIO eReader

  GalleyCat read reports about the BLIO eReader during the CES conference, but at Digital Book World, we saw the eBook software platform conceived by futurist Ray Kurtzweil in action. Three books were demonstrated. First was children's book with a (read)

• eBookNewser Radio

  As we count the hours to Apple's big announcement at 10am PT (1pm ET), our digital sibling eBookNewser has been all over the news this morning. Craig Morgan Teicher, publishing journalist and editor of eBookNewser, was the guest on the Morning Me (read)

• The Economics of Digital Readership

  In a morning presentation at Digital Book World, Kelly Gallagher (pictured, via) of RR Bowker provided a preliminary look at the evolving e-readership. Most dramatically, he reported that 37 percent of eBook readers earned over $65,000 a year, 38 (read)

• Comic MegaStore Corp! Launches A Mega Online Comic Book Store with awesome

  South Florida - Comic MegaStore.com is proud to announce the highly anticipated launch of their new website www. ComicMegaStore.com. The idea of a comic megastore started with a desire to provide customers a wide selection of comic books with truly (read)

• NewsRx Publishes Encyclopedia of Vaccines, 2009: An encyK Resource for Pare

  ATLANTA, Jan. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- NewsRx, a 25-year-old publisher and international news organization headquartered in Atlanta, has published a new encyclopedia on vaccines -- Encyclopedia of Vaccines, 2009: An encyK Resource for Parents, Patients & (read)

• No books, no publishers. Wattpad and Lulu offer authors mobile publishing

  Much like in the music industry, authors often find that the vast majority of their money goes to their publisher. Since most authors couldn't possibly handle the cost of publishing thousands of books, that's often not too bad a trade. But today (read)

• NewsRx Publishes Encyclopedia of Vaccines, 2009: An encyK Resource for Pare

  ATLANTA, Jan. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- NewsRx, a 25-year-old publisher and international news organization headquartered in Atlanta, has published a new encyclopedia on vaccines -- Encyclopedia of Vaccines, 2009: An encyK Resource for Parents, Patients & (read)

• McClatchy Announces Consents to Amend Its Credit Agreement

  Extract not available. (read)

• McClatchy Announces Debt Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation

  SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI) announced today that it has commenced an offer to purchase for cash (the 'Offer') any and all of its outstanding 7.125% notes due June 1, 2011 (the '2011 Notes') (read)

• McClatchy has debt deal; cost cuts lead to profit

  Newspaper publisher McClatchy Co. said Wednesday that most of its lenders have agreed to refinance its debt and that it cut enough costs to turn a profit in the fourth quarter, even as advertising continued to slide. AP Business Writer NEW YORK ' (read)

• McClatchy has debt deal; cost cuts lead to profit

  NEW YORK - Newspaper publisher McClatchy Co. said Wednesday that most of its lenders have agreed to refinance its debt and that it cut enough costs to turn a profit in the fourth quarter, even as advertising continued to slide. McClatchy shares jumpe (read)

• McClatchy Announces Consents to Amend Its Credit Agreement

  PR Newswire SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan. 27 SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI) announced that lenders holding approximately 90% of the total commitments under the company's credit facility have consent (read)

• NewsRx Publishes Encyclopedia of Vaccines, 2009: An encyK Resource for Pare

  ATLANTA, Jan. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- NewsRx, a 25-year-old publisher and international news organization headquartered in Atlanta, has published a new encyclopedia on vaccines -- Encyclopedia of Vaccines, 2009: An encyK Resource for Parents, Patients & (read)

• NewsRx Publishes Encyclopedia of Vaccines, 2009: An encyK Resource for Pare

  ATLANTA, Jan. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- NewsRx, a 25-year-old publisher and international news organization headquartered in Atlanta, has published a new encyclopedia on vaccines -- Encyclopedia of Vaccines, 2009: An encyK Resource for Parents, Patients & (read)

• NewsRx Publishes Encyclopedia of Vaccines, 2009: An encyK Resource for Pare

  ATLANTA, Jan. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- NewsRx, a 25-year-old publisher and international news organization headquartered in Atlanta, has published a new encyclopedia on vaccines -- Encyclopedia of Vaccines, 2009: An encyK Resource for Parents, Patients & (read)

• Viridity Software Appoints Steve Keilen Vice President of Marketing

  BURLINGTON, Mass., Jan. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Viridity Software, an innovator in data center energy management and optimization solutions, today announced that it has appointed industry veteran Steve Keilen Vice President of Marketing. In this newly (read)

• Sex Addiction Expert Craig Gross Sees Warning in Tiger Woods Case

  ATLANTA, Jan. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- The publicity surrounding Tiger Woods' reported treatment for sex addiction should raise public awareness of the problem's causes, including the fact that pornography is now just a click away on the Internet, accordin (read)

• Ex-CVS druggist apologizes for fake ad touting 'Kinky Brenda'

  NORWALK, Conn. ' A former Connecticut pharmacist who created an online sex posting for a customer after arguing with her has been spared jail time. Jonathan Medina was sentenced to two years' probation Tuesday in Norwalk Superior Court, where he (read)

• Cology to Provide Alternative Student Loan Solutions for UW Credit Union

  SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Jan. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Cology, Inc., the technology and universal core processing experts, and UW Credit Union, serving the University of Wisconsin communities, are pleased to announce a new relationship through which Cology will (read)

• Americans Challenged to Sleep Out Overnight to Raise Awareness About Homele

  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Jan. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Britain's Prince William slept on the streets of London in December and now The Lord's Place, a non-profit, non-sectarian organization which helps the homeless in Palm Beach County, Florida, is challengi (read)

• Computerworld Honors Courion Customer with 'Premier 100 IT Leaders' Award

  FRAMINGHAM, Mass., Jan. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Courion Corporation, leaders in access governance, provisioning, and compliance, today announced that customer Scott Ranson, CIO of Brookdale Senior Living, has been named one of Computerworld's Premier 100 (read)

• Economic Optimism Reaches its Highest Level: Deloitte Study

  NEW YORK, Jan. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Since initiating its year-long study of global talent trends and strategies, Deloitte reveals in its latest research report that economic optimism has reached its highest level among surveyed executives since the stu (read)

• McClatchy Announces Consents to Amend Its Credit Agreement

  The McClatchy Company announced that lenders holding approximately 90% of the total commitments under the company's credit facility have consented to an amendment to the credit agreement that will permit the company to issue $875 million of senior (read)

• McClatchy Proposes to Offer $875 Million Senior Notes Due 2017

  SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The McClatchy Company today announced that it proposes to offer $875 million aggregate principal amount of senior notes, subject to market conditions and other factors. The notes would be due in 2 (read)

• McClatchy Announces Debt Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation

  SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - The McClatchy Company announced today that it has commenced an offer to purchase for cash (the 'Offer') ... (read)

• McClatchy Announces Debt Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation

  Extract not available. (read)

• John Bay, Viyya Technologies, CEO, Presents at Magazine Publishers of Ameri

  FAIRFIELD, NJ -- (Marketwire) -- 01/27/10 -- Viyya Technologies, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: VYON) -- John Bay, founder and CEO of Viyya Technologies, Inc., (www.viyya.com) Fairfield, New Jersey, was the lead-off speaker at a conference sponsored by the Magazi (read)

• John Bay, Viyya Technologies, CEO, Presents at Magazine Publishers of Ameri

  fairfield, nj -- (market wire) -- 01/27/10 viyya technologies, inc. (pinksheets: vyon) -- john bay, founder and ceo of viyya technologies, inc., (www.viyya.com) fairfield, new jersey, was the lead-off speaker at a conference sponsored by the magazine (read)

• The Washington Post Launches AllMetSports.com

  The Washington Post today launches AllMetSports.com, a new sports site solely dedicated to covering high school athletic talent in the metropolitan area starting with the basketball season. AllMetSports.com will expand the Post's local high school (read)

• The Washington Post Launches AllMetSports.com

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• Book review: Thinking of Answers

  AC Grayling's 'Thinking of Answers' will make you think twice about the simplest of questions. (read)

• Amazon's Kindle Apps vs. Apple's iPhone Apps

  Amazon (AMZN) has announced that it will open its Kindle platform and invite software developers to create what it calls 'active content' or, in other words, apps to help expand Kindle's usage. The success of Apple's (AAPL) iPhone apps have spurred t (read)

• Specialty Coffee Association of America Brings the World's Largest Specialt

  LONG BEACH, Calif., Jan. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Coffee producing, roasting, grinding, brewing, serving and much more - it's all at the Specialty Coffee Association of America's (SCAA) 22nd Annual Exposition & Symposium, April 15 ' 18, 2010, Anaheim, Cali (read)

• Home Bancorp Announces 2009 Fourth Quarter and Annual Results

  LAFAYETTE, La., Jan. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Home Bancorp, Inc. (HBCP) (the 'Company'), the holding company for Home Bank (www.home24bank.com), a Federally chartered savings bank headquartered in Lafayette, Louisiana (the 'Bank'), announced net (read)

• WellPoint Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2009 Results

  INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Fourth quarter 2009 net income was $5.95 per share, including net benefits of $4.79 per share resulting primarily from a gain on the sale of the NextRx subsidiaries. Fourth quarter 2009 adjusted net in (read)

• PMI Entertainment Group Chooses ProVenue(R) From Tickets.com for Its Innova

  COSTA MESA, Calif., Jan. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- PMI Entertainment Group, a company that operates several facilities, including The Resch Center, Brown County Veteran's Memorial Arena, Meyer Theatre and Shopko Exhibition Hall, has chosen ProVenue from (read)

• New Uses for Text to Speech: Acapela Group Changes the Image of Voice

  MONS, Belgium, January 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Acapela Group, expert and inventor of innovative vocal solutions, is creating a vocal world accessible to anyone, whatever the size of their project, in all fields, and positions itself as a key partner, givi (read)

• APF Founding Sponsors at The Concrete Decor Show 2010

  GLENDALE, Ariz., Jan. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- APF is proud to announce that they are founding sponsors in the first annual Concrete Decor Show of 2010 in Phoenix, AZ from March 16-19th. The tradeshow will focus specifically on the decorative concrete mark (read)

• Toys'R'Us, Inc. Issues A Call To Action To Remove Potentially Unsafe Baby P

  WAYNE, N.J., Jan. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Toys'R'Us, Inc. today issued a call to action for customers to rid their homes of potentially unsafe old and second-hand baby products and exchange them for savings on a new item during the 'Great Trade-In' event. (read)

• Legal Puzzle of Parentage? New York Times finally gets it right on this one

  Surrogacy & Egg Donation & the Legal Puzzle Regarding Parentage - I am pleased to see that someone at the New York Times finally posted something positive on surrogacy - a concept to say the least regarding how these cases should be handled by the (read)

• Play Paywall!, the New Web Game Sweeping the Newspaper Industry [Voices]

  By Jonathan Stray, Contributor, Nieman Journalism Lab It's entirely possible that The New York Times (NYT) will net a profit from their newly announced paywall, set to debut in a year's time. But it's by no means guaranteed. Even (momentarily) (read)

• Baylor University: Let's separate fact from fiction

  The Baylor College of Medicine is one of the most respected institutions not only in Houston but throughout the medical world, and any discussion concerning its future properly commands attention. News of preliminary conversations regarding a (read)

• Thomas Friedman: Anyone left to deal with this mess?

  Sometimes you wonder: Are we home alone? Obviously, the political and financial elites often act on the basis of personal interests. But we still have a long way to go to get out of the mess we are in, and if our elites do not behave with a greater s (read)

• A&M women gear up for Baylor, 6-8 star Griner

  While the Bears have struggled lately, Brittney Griner has been a menace for opponents. WACO ' The voice of Texas A&M's Danielle Adams drops an octave, as if sharing closely-guarded secrets on how to closely guard Baylor's Brittney Griner. (read)

• Tablet Rumors Lift Shares Of Barnes & Noble

  Shares of Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) fell $1.02 to close at $15.47, JP Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) dropped $2.86 to close at $40.54 and Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) lost 19 cents to close at $3.27 over the possibility of... (read)

• More Secret Apple Tablet Details Leaked: Apple Firing eBook Cannon At Amazo

  Apple's plans for ebooks are leaking out.  They will be music to the ears of publishers worried that Amazon is killing the market by pricing ebooks at $9.99. Jeffrey Trachtenberg, WSJ: Apple is asking publishers to set two e-book price poin (read)

• Book published compiling public visions of 2020

  TAIPEI, Taiwan -- A book compiling public opinion about visions of 2020 was published yesterday with the aim of providing the government with more ideas on how to enhance administration efficiency and ensure a better future for the country. The book (read)

• ACORN 'pimp' arrested in alleged phone-tampering plot

  James O'Keefe speaks with the media while getting into a taxi cab after being released from the St. Bernard Parish jail in Chalmette, La., Tuesday. O'Keefe, a conservative activist who posed as a pimp to target the community-organizing group ACORN, i (read)

• Holes-in-one: Jan. 27

  Player Course Hole Yds. Club Manny Reyes Bear Creek Golf World 17 134 6-iron Bill Harlan Hearthstone CC 5 197 5-wood Joey Butts Hillcrest GC 1 153 6-iron Gary Roberts Lakeside CC 14 172 5-iron John Fitzpatrick Northgate CC 4 145 6-iron Gene McDavid P (read)

• Dalai Lama envoys hope to revisit autonomy plan

  Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama wears a ceremonial hat during a prayer ceremony at the Tsuglakhang temple in Dharmsala, India, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010. The Central Tibetan Administration led by the Tibetan Prime Minister Samdhong Rinpoche (read)

• Mel Gibson will always stink; he always has, IMHO...

  Mel Gibson stars as homicide Detective Thomas Craven in the suspense thriller Edge of Darkness. ACCORDING TO MEL GIBSON • Gibson, on turning 54 this month: 'This journey is more than half over. I'm way past the halfway mark. It's kind of scary. And (read)

• Body found in Harris Co. confirms mother's worst fears

  For more than two months, Deandrae Emerson had been waiting for any information about her daughter. This week, she learned that the missing 31-year-old was dead, her decomposed body found in a shallow ditch in northeast Harris County. ?It was really (read)