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This morning, several thousand Hillsborough County voters will be heading to new polling locations after the Supervisor of Election's Office moved ... High-altitude balloons offer scientists a cost-efficient way to study the sunWinston-Salem Journal 1/29/2008 12:25:09 AM Who needs an expensive rocket when you can ride high on a cheap balloon?. . That's the attitude of scientists who recently finished a landmark test ... Tribune parent calls hedge fund's move 'hostile'Tampa Bay Business Journal 1/28/2008 5:01:10 PM Media General Inc. is fighting a move from a hedge fund to elect three of its people to the company's board of directors. . . Harbinger Capital ... Hedge Fund Seeks Board Seats At New York TimesWall Street Journal 1/28/2008 7:49:02 AM An investment firm is trying to get its own nominees elected to the board of the New York Times Co.
DPS kicks off early-education expansion
Four-year-olds at Columbine Elementary had just finished dancing and singing about peanut butter and jelly on Monday before men in ties interrupted. A news conference with some of Denver's top leaders took place in Michael Conlon's preschool classroom to announce an expansion of Denver Public Schools' preschool and kindergarten programs. The district wants to increase the number of preschool slots by as much as 40 percent and full-day kindergarten slots by up to 30 percent. "The fate of empires depends upon the education of youth," Mayor John Hickenlooper told the class, quoting Aristotle. "That's why we're all here for you guys, so that we won't get left in the dust." The district wants to tap into $10 million a year already being generated by a voter-approved sales tax for preschool.
Airways auction points to future of wireless broadband
NEW YORK — Bidding begins Thursday in a pivotal auction of public radio airwaves worth billions of dollars, a contest expected to plot the wireless industry's course and shape the future of high-speed mobile Internet access. Heavyweight bidders favored to win big slices of radio spectrum are Verizon Wireless and AT&T Inc. The phone companies want airwaves to enhance their mobile services and offer consumers a new generation of wireless broadband. The more than 200 qualified bidders also include cable and satellite companies, smaller wireless carriers and Internet power Google Inc. While Google is a potential wild card, industry experts doubt it will attempt to win radio spectrum licenses. They say Google has already achieved its goal: prodding wireless carriers into giving consumers more freedom in picking mobile devices and software.
State ranks first in nation in cash loans, construction categories
Clark said housing will take the biggest hit in the 2007 rankings due to a dramatic drop in the number of mortgage brokers and real estate agents. The restaurant industry will feel a sting too, he said, because the slumping economy is causing people to eat out less. Clark said the upcoming year will be a trying time for homeowners as well. "It's people worrying about credit card debt who are also upside-down on their mortgages that will suffer the most," Clark said. "We're in for kind of a rough road." .
South African miners resume production
But after talks overnight near Johannesburg between industry leaders, Eskom and government, the leading gold producers AngloGold Ashanti and Gold Fields as well as the diamond firm De Beers said they would now be able to send miners underground. Alan Fine, a spokesman for AngloGold, said production had already resumed at Mponeng mine, near Carletonville, and the majority would be up and running by the end of the week when it should have 90 per cent of normal power supplies. "The rate at which we are going to ramp up production is very difficult to predict but we hope to be up to about 60 per cent by the end of the week," Mr Fine said. Gold Fields also said it had been informed by Eskom that it would have 80 per cent of its normal power by midnight Tuesday local time and 90 per cent by Thursday.
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