| Time Inc. sells 18 magazines to Bonnier | | Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 3:09:41 PM by Blog57 Team | | NEW YORK, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Time Inc. is selling 18 of its smaller titles including Popular Science, Field & Stream and Parenting to Swedish publisher Bonnier Magazine Group. Financial terms were not disclosed, but an executive close to the transaction told United Press International the price was more than $200 million. The sale and other recent divestitures let Time, which has been adapting to readers and advertisers moving to the Internet, "concentrate our resources on developing our most strategic and promising opportunities to grow our businesses," Time Warner Chairman and Chief Executive Dick Parsons said. Time sold off its book division last March and said last week it would lay off nearly 300 employees, including many at its biggest magazines, Time and People.... | |
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| | | Bradford Washburn, father of modern Museum of Science, dies at 96 | | Posted Saturday, January 13, 2007 1:06:32 PM by Blog57 Team | | By Michael J. Bailey, Globe staff and Andrew Ryan, Globe Correspondent Bradford Washburn, the founder of the modern Boston Museum of Science who transformed a modest collection into renowned institution, died last night at the age of 96. The cause was heart failure, said his wife, Barbara Washburn. He died in Brookhaven retirement home in Lexington. "He was a very kind and loving person and just had a desire for doing good things and adventure," Barbara Washburn said. "And he loved to share that goodness and that spirit of adventure." Mr. Washburn ran the Museum of Science for 41 years, moving the small collection from its original Berkeley Street building to its present site on the Charles River Basin, now known as Science Park.... | |
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| | | Edcouch-Elsa school starts paleontology club | | Posted Saturday, December 30, 2006 3:03:41 PM by Blog57 Team | | EDCOUCH - Science is a subject for which Texas school administrators and teachers struggle to find ways to boost student interest.But Tony Garza, principal of the Edcouch-Elsa school district's Sixth Grade Campus, thinks he has found something to get his student's attention: starting a club.Garza, the Mile 17 North school's principal since it opened four years ago, started its first Paleontology Club this year to help his students understand and become interested in the study of fossils and how they affect the Earth's development.The principal said it was important for sixth-grade students to get involved in something because it was a time of transition for them, from leaving elementary school to blossoming into middle school students. .... | |
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| | | GAO: Nuclear plant protection officers need more training | | Posted Monday, November 27, 2006 1:12:57 PM by Blog57 Team | | A successful terrorist attack on a Department of Energy site containing nuclear weapons material could have devastating effects for the site and nearby communities. The DOE's Office of the Under Secretary for Energy, Science and Environment, which is responsible for DOE operations in areas such as energy research, manages five sites that contain weapons-grade nuclear material. A heavily armed security force equipped with such items as automatic weapons protects ESE sites. Protective forces at the five ESE sites containing weapons-grade nuclear material generally meet existing DOE readiness requirements. Specifically, the ESE protective forces generally comply with DOE standards for firearms proficiency, physical fitness levels, and equipment standardization and that the five ESE sites had the required training programs, facilities, and equipment.... | |
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| | | Life still sweet for 85-year-old World War II Navy veteran | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 11:31:28 AM by Blog57 Team | | For The TranscriptAt age 85, Roy Troutt has a world of memories, as the saying goes, memories that span the earth. A teacher and administrator in Oklahoma public schools and in higher education, and a World War II veteran, he has much to reflect upon.Troutt was born in 1921 in Durant. Raised by a single mother, he began earning money at age 12 working in his uncle's creamery in Bonham, Texas. "I started out washing cans and moved up to building fires, then to making mixes and finally to freezing ice cream," he recalls, and smiles as he says,"I still like ice cream. I have several cartons in the freezer now."Hard working as a student, he finished high school at 16, and earned a degree in mathematics and education from Southeastern State at age 20, just as the threat of World War II was looming.... | |
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| | | Life among the grapes | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 7:10:49 PM by Blog57 Team | | Many readers have asked about becoming wine professionals. Our columnist offers vine advice. TO some people, wine is just a beverage. To others, it is a work of art. And to a select few, it is a lifestyle, a profession, a calling, even. If you want to make a living out of wine, there are many ways of doing so. You can train to be a sommelier, a food technologist, a viticulturist or even start your own wine shop or winery. Here are some suggestions on how to get started. Begin at the bottom Start your career as a winemaker/viticulturist by writing to chateaux and wineries offering to pick grapes and help out in the cellar. If the winery thinks you have potential, they will invite you back for the next seasons harvest. You will be given more responsibility and could end up as their winemaker or vineyard manager.... | |
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| | | UPDATE: Two-year Sprint To The White House Begins | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 11:25:14 PM by Blog57 Team | | WASHINGTON (Dow Jones) -- The confetti hasn't been swept up from Tuesday's campaign victory parties, but the men and women who would be the next president have already begun their run. It's a wide open race in both parties. For the first time since 1928, neither the sitting president nor the sitting vice president will be a candidate. At this stage in the race, it's more a matter of winnowing out the herd than establishing a clear winner. Candidates know they have to get an early start if they are to make an impact at the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary, which are just 14 months away. Before seeking any votes, the candidates search for money. The candidate with the most money at the beginning of the primary season in February is almost always the nominee in November.... | |
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| | | in other magazines What's new in the Newsweek, etc. | | Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 1:31:44 PM by Blog57 Team | | George Packer canvasses the Nigerian "megacity" Lagos, currently the sixth most populous in the world and moving up the ladder quickly. Most of its residents have come to seek opportunity but hover at the edge of survival, living in slums and working irregular jobs in its massive informal economy: extortion, prostitution, picking garbage, hawking goods at the side of the road. Most other cities with huge slum populations exhibit some planning and have downtown business districts firmly under the rule of law. Not so, Lagos: "The whole city suffers from misuse." Packer is critical of Western intellectuals dazzled by Lagos' legions of small entrepreneurs and its frontier spirit. Lagos is a wretched place to live and, despite new efforts toward planning and law enforcement since the return of democratic elections in 1999, it will probably become worse.... | |
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| | | 2007 Porsche 911 Turbo wins Popular Science Magazine's ''Best of What's New'' Award | | Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 7:25:44 AM by Blog57 Team | | ATLANTA--The 2007 Porsche 911 Turbo was awarded a Best of What's New in the Automotive category in Popular Science Magazine's 2006 19th Annual "Best of What's New" awards. This award will be featured in the December issue to be on newsstands November 14. The 2007 Porsche 911 Turbo - which went on sale this past summer - was chosen for the development and implementation of Porsche's variable turbine geometry (VTG) setup which was developed in close cooperation with Borg Warner Turbo Systems. It is based on technology which has been widely and successfully applied to diesel engines since the early 1990s. It is nearly identical in concept to other turbo manufacturers' variable nozzle/geometry compressors, including a system that was briefly used on a series gasoline production engine in the late 1980s.... | |
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| | | Davis vs. Lucas: May the best last-minute effort win | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 3:11:45 PM by Blog57 Team | | About 100 supporters of U.S. Rep. Geoff Davis crammed inside a squat office building off Interstate 75 Friday morning to kick off the final weekend of volunteer efforts to encourage people to vote. The setting was old-school politics with bagels, bumper stickers and fiery speeches from U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning and the Republican National Committee's Ken Mehlman. But behind the effort was an increasingly sophisticated enterprise designed to turn out more voters for Davis and other Republican candidates. The work being done in the 4th Congressional District is something Democratic challenger Ken Lucas must contend with if he is to win Tuesday, in what observers say is a very close race. Nationally, Democrats have been forced to adjust after watching their opponents change the get-out-the-vote game in recent years.... | |
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