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Texas • school district in that refused to broadcast President Obama's message is busing students off campus to hear a speech by George W. Bush...
...Last year, they came to a settlement, which is now awaiting approval from a New York district court. Presently, Google Books gives readers full access to books that are out of copyright - therefore, in the public domain - but shows only extracts of books that are still in copyright, alongside information on bookstores and libraries where you can find them. Should the court approve the agreement, Google will be able to offer users the option to purchase full digital access to books that are still in copyright but are out of print - turning itself, in effect, into a huge bookstore...
...York district court has scheduled a fairness hearing for Oct. 7, in an attempt to decide, among other things, whether or not the Google Books agreement is anti-competitive. There has been a rush of last-minute filings, for and against the agreement, from rival companies, publishers, advocacy groups and even foreign governments, including Germany's (which opposes the agreement). Should Judge Denny Chin find against the settlement, the class action originally launched by the AAP and the Authors Guild would, in theory, continue. He could also decide against outright approval but still sketch out other possible solutions...
Narinder Kumar wants to buy an electric steam iron. The 24-year-old dhobi, or washerman, earns his living ironing clothes with a coal-fired iron as his ancestors did, in the same shack in south Delhi's Lajpat Nagar district as his father and grandfather before him. It's hard to imagine a workplace with a smaller carbon footprint than Kumar's: At 6 by 4 ft., it consists of only four iron poles holding up a roof made of plywood and corrugated iron. There's one electric fan for the summer days when the heat from the bulky...
...Cambridge Public Schools superintendent, Jeffrey M. Young, said that he would not be able to provide concrete recommendations to remedy the long-debated “middle school issue” in the city by the October deadline set by the school committee. Young, who began working for the district on July 6, had agreed to present to the committee his plan to resolve the concern over the quality of the education that 6th-8th grade students receive in K-8 schools, an environment some claim is not specifically—and therefore poorly—designed for the needs...