Microsoft pledge excluding primary competitors. Yesterday's media briefing by Microsoft on its its pledge to release interoperability information for flagship products contained little actual news. Over the years Microsoft has made multiple similar pledges and they at times proved to be detrimental rather than beneficial for interoperability. Examining the terms of the Microsoft's latest action shows no major change of policy.Regrettably, the lack of substance in the pledge and the timing suggest that Microsoft is primarily hoping for positive media coverage and not an examination of the substance of their limited interoperability release.

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Hillary Clinton has worn the traditional clothing of countries she has visited.

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Book Reviews of Good Humor, Bad Taste: A Sociology of the Joke. By Giselinde Kuipers. The Music of Bill Monroe. By Neil V. Rosenberg and Charles K. Wolfe. Living by Stories: A Journey of Landscape and Memory. By Harry Robinson.

We need a show of force. BRING YOUR INSTRUMENTS. We want a visual display of artists everywhere in the Capitol demonstrating that the Performance Rights Act is important to musicians. Big corporate radio is the only medium that refuses to pay performers royalties for their hard work. You do the work, you should be fairly paid. Bring your instruments. National Association of Broadcasters

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EdInfo Notices Inviting Applications (February 22, 2008)Recent grant opportunities from the U.S. Department of Education (ED) include... * Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers Program -- CFDA# 84.128G * International Research and Studies Program -- CFDA# 84.017A * Partnerships in Character Education Program -- CFDA# 84.215S

Three hundred people die from cardiac arrest each day while students go to classes. Furthermore, about 900 people in the United States die from cardiac arrest every day, making it the largest cause of death among Americans. The best way to reduce the number of deaths cardiac arrest claims is to train more people how to give CPR and how to use Automatic External Defibrillators (AED). Teenagers comprise a large group of the population that are often uneducated on these skills. Preparing the next generation through CPR/AED training is quite literally a matter of life and death.