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Faced with the higher tab for higher education, applicants are routinely asking colleges about the number of job offers and starting-salary averages for their graduates. With the cost-conscious in mind, Richard Moll, dean of admissions at the University of California, Santa Cruz has written The Public Ivys, due out next month. In it Moll profiles eight top-drawer public schools and nine runners-up. In many ways, he says, their quality "is quite comparable to anything the Ivy League has to offer," despite costs in some cases half that of the storied private institutions...
Since the fame of William ("the Refrigerator") Perry has spread far and wide in recent weeks, no one should mix him up with Tab Thacker anymore, right? For those with a slim memory: Perry was a star defensive lineman at Clemson, class of '85, while Thacker was the national collegiate heavyweight wrestling champ from North Carolina State, class of '84. Now as Perry carries on his football career with the Chicago Bears, Thacker is branching out to try the movies. In Wildcats, Goldie Hawn, 40, plays a Chicago high school football coach stuck with the roughest athletes in the city...
DIED. J. Paul Austin, 70, former president (1962-71) and chairman (1970-81) of Coca-Cola, who broadened the firm's product line with new soft drinks (Tab, Sprite), wines and fruit juices and led it through an expansion by ten times to $5 billion sales and more than $470 million in earnings; of Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease; in Atlanta. In 1978 Austin negotiated an exclusive agreement to market Coke in China; the same year he made another deal to sell Fanta Orange in the Soviet Union, ending Pepsi's monopoly on U.S. drink sales there...
...Gmail To snag a free Google email account you must be invited by a current user. (Each new member gets 10 invites; I've got a few left if you're interested.) The service keeps message threads together, so you get the full conversation under one tab. With 2 gigabytes of free storage (the cap on an individual message, with attachments, is 10 megabytes) and a speedy Search feature, you won't ever have to clean out your inbox...
...News The best place to get all the day's top stories just got better. The new-and-improved version uses the popular tab approach to organize articles into categories: U.S. News, Business, Entertainment, Sports, Tech, Politics, Health, etc. Users can create a My Sources list so those stories appear first, or flip through headlines from several sources. You can also sign up to get RSS feeds...