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...show Copeland owns three planes and his ministry has several more) and whether trips to Hawaii and Fiji on a ministry plane were for business reasons. Grassley also wants the specifics of a reported deal whereby the ministry - which possesses considerable mineral rights - allegedly used them to "capitalize" a for-profit company. All the questions seem aimed at determining whether Copeland had broken the tax laws regarding non-profits, emphatically and repeatedly...
...seems that the for-profit academic publishing industry’s days are numbered. The model it was built on depended on the necessity of ink and paper for its viability. But today, the Internet has made the exchange and storage of information and ideas so cheap, that taxing the free marketplace of ideas and knowledge that academia is founded upon no longer makes economic sense. Enter the open access movement, which is slowly marching its way across academia. The open access movement seeks to displace the expensive, subscription-only elite journals that have long held a stranglehold on academic...
...that may work better? Medicine 2.0 often involves incremental improvement of things we're already pretty good at - making things safer or faster, more reliable and, yes, more attractive to patients. That last one, called "patient acceptance" by the industry, is a huge factor in our for-profit, marketing-driven world. But should patients, even really bright patients, who read every word on the Internet about their afflictions, be driving such choices...
...voucher system in all but name that blows up the monopoly of a traditional school district. In the process, they have attracted the best school operators from around the nation to show what they can do, ranging from national nonprofit charter networks such as KIPP schools to for-profit companies like Edison Schools...
...current state of search, which he believes is in need of transparency rather than "black box" algorithms to determine what results are presented to users. As he explains on his company's site, Wikia.com, search "is part of the fundamental structure of the Internet and, it is currently broken." For-profit Wikia was started in 2004 as the commercial version of not-for-profit Wikipedia, but has now shifted its focus to search. Community involvement through volunteer editors, the backbone of Wikipedia, is clearly in Wales' plans. He revealed a second part of his strategy through his acquisition from Looksmart...