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...participate in the glow-stick event (plus a tout for the town as the birthplace of a co-inventor of the laser, which gave rise to fiber optics). "We're a city in the midst of reinventing itself as a tech community, and we think Google Fiber could really help," says Aaron von Frank, the baby-faced 31-year-old tech developer who spearheaded the effort to get Google's attention as local officials completed the documentation necessary to keep the city in the running. (See the story of Google's doodles...
Tennessee and Delaware won the first round of the Race to the Top, a $4.35 billion federal grant program to help states improve their education systems. The two states bested more than 40 other applicants by not only coming up with solid plans to save failing schools but also garnering support for the plans from stakeholders. Tennessee was awarded $500 million; Delaware will receive $100 million. Some $3.4 billion remains to be awarded in another round this August...
While Martini and Reed can sound Pollyannaish, given the bleak job market ("If you were unhappy or in a job that wasn't right, your boss did you a favor"), this spirited book should help the immobilized find some footing...
...Great Recession, with the unemployment rate hovering near 10%, job-search sites like CareerBuilder and Monster.com are reporting increases in the number of postings for internships. And more and more college graduates and even middle-aged professionals are willing to work for free in hopes that it will help them land a paying gig. (See 10 perfect jobs for the recession - and after...
...very tempting if you're laying off employees to bring in free help and call it an internship," says John Kniering, director of career services for the University of Hartford. "But most career-services operations are fairly sophisticated in weeding those...