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...fill it. Just three days after Oprah's announcement, the Today show said it would start a monthly club of its own. USA Today and Live with Regis and Kelly soon followed, and last week Good Morning America jumped into the literary fray, announcing its first title, Ann Packer's The Dive from Clausen's Pier. Though all tout Winfrey as the book-club queen, each media outlet has tried hard to distinguish itself from her--and from one another. --By Harriet Barovick...
...works: A segment called "Read This" will each month profile a different regional book club, whose members will then choose the next book. Last week viewers met the margarita-sipping, tiara-sporting Pulpwood Queens of Jefferson, Texas; their recommendation of Ann Packer's book shot it to No. 1 on Amazon.com
...school graduates start looking for full-time jobs. Since October, the unemployment rate has been hovering around 12% for workers ages 16 to 24, who are usually the first to be laid off. Diane Miller, 22, a zoology major who graduated in April from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, is looking for work in marine biology but observes wistfully, "A lot of people who were going to help me get a job are now having to worry about their own jobs...
...five visionaries on our panel are--in addition to Kurzweil--Paul Horn, IBM senior vice president for research; Sandeep Malhotra, vice president for nanotechnology at Ardesta, an Ann Arbor, Mich., venture-capital firm and industry incubator; Chris Meyer, director of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young's Center for Business Innovation in Cambridge, Mass.; and Melanie Mitchell, a research professor at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico. They offer a glimpse of technologies--most of them already in use--that will reshape the way businesses are run and profits are made in the years ahead...
Ardesta, the Ann Arbor venture-capital firm and self-styled "accelerator" of small technologies, has raised about $100 million in capital to nurture companies such as Discera, which is trying to shrink key cell-phone components onto a square-centimeter microchip, and Sensicore, which develops products that analyze water and blood. "I would tell you we are talking about this as a revolution," says Malhotra, "but I view nanotechnology as an evolution...