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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Ever since it started out as a humble search engine 11 years ago, Google's goal has been to organize the world's knowledge. In 2004, it took a big step in that direction with Google Books, a project that aims to digitize as many books as possible and make them available to the web-using public. The project proved controversial from the start, with U.S. publishers accusing the Internet giant of copyright infringement. Google eventually came to an agreement with them over the issue. But as a New York court tries to decide whether or not the agreement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: European Publishers Fight Against Google Books | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

House lists have been flooded with complaints of lost, stolen, or misplaced items—along with the more optimistic bunch hoping that maybe someone just took their entire futon from the depths of storage... by accident...

Author: By Eric P. Newcomer | Title: Finders Keepers | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

...onestly, even if you took my chair (armless) you can have the arms -- I was gonna sell it for $5 anyway," he wrote...

Author: By Eric P. Newcomer | Title: Finders Keepers | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

...computer lab, and randomly saw a desk, mattress frame and whiteboard leaned against the wall, looking like they had been deserted there for a while. Thinking this was left-over stuff someone no longer wanted, and hating for a whiteboard to go to waste, I took the whiteboard up to my room. It occurred to me, however, someone might have been temporarily storing their stuff there for later use. So I wanted to check: is this anyone's stuff? Was this for giving away, or for storage...

Author: By Eric P. Newcomer | Title: Finders Keepers | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

Harvard’s invested endowment assets took a 27.3 percent hit this past fiscal year, amidst an economic maelstrom that Harvard Management Company CEO and President Jane L. Mendillo called “very likely the most challenging period in modern times for the financial markets as well as for the Harvard portfolio...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Endowment, Largest in Higher Education, Plummets by 27% | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

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