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Prominent Entrepreneurs Nina Zagat, Tim Zagat, Rick Smilow Join Boards at Humanitarian Organization, Action Against Hunger.
April 1, 2004... Byline: Action Against Hunger - USA NEW YORK, April 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Nina and Tim Zagat, the co-founders and co-chairs of the Zagat Survey, a leading provider of consumer survey-based leisure content, have become Honorary Board...

Students From Eight Campuses in United States, Canada Are Winners in Annual Student-Managed Portfolio Competition.
April 2, 2004... Byline: University of Dayton DAYTON, Ohio, April 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Some students who manage portfolios of real money aren't just winning big in the stock market: They're winning big in the premier student portfolio competition in the...

Researchers Discover Documents Outlining Tobacco Industry's Political Efforts to Delay Environmental Protection Agency Report on Indoor Second-Hand Smoke.
April 2, 2004... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., April 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Using previously secret tobacco industry documents, researchers in the current issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, outline the strategies used by the...

Student Portfolio Managers at Monfort College of Business Claim First Place in Nation's Largest Investment Competition; Undergraduate-Managed $1 Million Fund Wins for Growth-Style Equity Portfolio.
April 5, 2004... Byline: Monfort College of Business, University of Northern Colorado GREELEY, Colo., April 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Student mangers of the Student and Foundation Fund (SAFF) at the University of Northern Colorado's Monfort College of...

After Holding the Line for Two Years, Foundation Giving Declined in 2003; Prospects Good for Modest Increase in 2004 Giving.
April 5, 2004... Byline: The Foundation Center NEW YORK, April 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Three consecutive years of stock market losses and a sluggish and uneven economic recovery caught up with foundations in 2003. Giving by the nation's nearly 65,000...

Low-Fare Carriers Dominate Top Spots in Airline Quality Rating; Jet Blue Is New No. 1.
April 5, 2004... Byline: Wichita State University WICHITA, Kan., April 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Three of the top four performing airlines are low-fare carriers, according to the national Airline Quality Rating (AQR) study. The 14th annual study, ranking the...

High-Level Global Communications Strategy Forum to Be Held at U. T. Dallas May 5-7; Experts to Discuss Many Challenges Their Industry Faces.
April 5, 2004... Byline: University of Texas at Dallas RICHARDSON, Texas, April 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- In one of the most comprehensive and star-studded conferences of its kind ever held in the Southwest, experts and leaders in the burgeoning -- and in...

WestEd Recognized As One of the Top 10 Best Places to Work in the Greater Bay Area; The San Francisco Business Times, Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal, Deloitte Honor National Nonprofit.
April 6, 2004... Byline: WestEd SAN FRANCISCO, April 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- WestEd, a nonprofit research, development, and service agency, has been named one of the 10 Best Places to Work in the Greater Bay Area by the San Francisco Business Times, the...

Purdue Team Wins National Student Investment Fund Contest -- Again.
April 6, 2004... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team from Purdue University's Krannert School of Management took first place in the nation's largest student-managed investment fund competition with a fund...

Renowned Corporate Law Scholar Robert Daines Joins Stanford Faculty As Inaugural Pritzker Professor of Law and Business.
April 6, 2004... Byline: Stanford Law School STANFORD, Calif., April 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Stanford Law School has announced the appointment of nationally known corporate law scholar Robert M. Daines as the school's inaugural Pritzker Professor of Law...

NASA Schedules Spacecraft Mid-Air Recovery Media Day April 15.
April 6, 2004... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., April 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Hollywood stunt pilots are working with NASA's Genesis mission to capture the first samples returned from space since Apollo 17 returned Moon rocks in 1972....

Leading Venture Capitalists to Judge UNC's Venture Capital Investment Competition; VCs Judge MBAs' Evaluations of Real Venture-Seeking Companies in One-of-a-Kind Competition.
April 7, 2004... Byline: Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC-Chapel Hill CHAPEL HILL, N.C., April 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Ten prominent venture capitalists have been selected to evaluate MBAs on their venture know-how in the Venture Capital Investment...

Elite Business Schools Move Away From Rankings; Suggests Fundamental Shift in Business School Marketing, Says Leading Business School Industry Consultant.
April 7, 2004... Byline: Lipman Hearne, Inc. CHICAGO, April 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- The move this week by several elite business schools to restrict the release of information typically used by major media to produce highly-popular rankings also suggests...

Michael Colbruno Named New Board Chairman at Chabot Space & Science Center.
April 7, 2004... Byline: Chabot Space & Science Center OAKLAND, Calif., April 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Chabot Space & Science Center has announced the appointment of Michael Colbruno as the new Chair of its Board of Directors. Michael Colbruno is Vice...

Survey Says Questions About Tooth Whitening, Dental Insurance Most Frequently Asked By Patients.
April 8, 2004... Byline: American Dental Association CHICAGO, April 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Patients ask dentists about whitening and bleaching their teeth more frequently than any other topic, according to results from the American Dental Association's...

April Medical Science & Health News Tips From Washington University in St. Louis.
April 9, 2004... Byline: Washington University, St. Louis ST. LOUIS, April 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- The following are news and feature story ideas from Washington University in St. Louis. For more information on any of the stories below or for assistance in...

UC San Diego Names Ramesh Rao to QUALCOMM Endowed Chair in Telecommunications and Information Technologies.
April 9, 2004... Byline: University of California, San Diego SAN DIEGO, Calif., April 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of California, San Diego today announced that Ramesh Rao has been appointed the first holder of the QUALCOMM Endowed Chair in...

Olympic Medalist, Paychex CEO Turned Passion Into Enterprise; Scott Hamilton to Speak at Bowling Green.
April 12, 2004... Byline: Bowling Green State University BOWLING GREEN, Ohio, April 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Fortune 500 CEO and an Olympic gold medalist will talk about what it takes to succeed as an entrepreneur April 29 at Bowling Green State...

Comcast Cable President Steve Burke to Deliver Colgate University Commencement Address May 16; Alumnus Is Communications Industry Leader, Founder of Disney Stores.
April 12, 2004... Byline: Colgate University HAMILTON, N.Y., April 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Steve Burke, president of Comcast Cable, the country's leading cable and broadband communications provider, and a Colgate University alumnus, has been chosen to...

American Dream of Home Ownership Turns Sour for Many Low-Income Buyers.
April 12, 2004... Byline: University of Washington SEATTLE, April 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- The American dream of buying and owning a home all too frequently doesn't have a happy ending for many low-income families. Despite federal government policies...

Tax Day: Sinners, Saints and Taxpayers.
April 12, 2004... Byline: Fisher College of Business, Ohio State COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Taxation has been a source of angst for more than two millennia and it may help to ease the day, this April 15, to consider the fact that assorted...

Janet Yellen Named Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President and Chief Executive.
April 13, 2004... Byline: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif., April 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Professor Janet L. Yellen has been appointed president & chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, according to George...

Technology to Deliver Nursing Best Practices at Point of Care; Unique Partnership Among Aurora Health Care, Cerner Corp., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee College of Nursing Elevates Role of Nursing in Delivery of Care.
April 13, 2004... Byline: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee MILWAUKEE, April 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Aurora Health Care, Cerner Corp. and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee have announced a unique partnership that is expected to change the way nursing...

Medicare Prescription Drug Discount Card Program Could Save All Seniors Without Drug Coverage a Total of $1 Billion.
April 13, 2004... Byline: Health Affairs BETHESDA, Md., April 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Medicare's prescription drug discount card program could save seniors without any other drug coverage an average of 17.4 percent - or a total of as much as $1 billion a...

MBA, Professional Leaders to Convene in New York City to Address Best Business Practices, Social Progress; Columbia Business School to Host 12th Annual Net Impact Conference.
April 14, 2004... Byline: Columbia Business School NEW YORK, April 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Columbia Business School and Net Impact announce that the School will host the 12th Annual Net Impact Conference "Business Leaders Building a Better World" on...

International Trade Through California Could Triple by 2020 -- But Can Our Infrastructure Handle It? Airports, Seaports Not Keeping Pace with Demand; 2002 Port Closures, Homeland Security May Have Repercussions.
April 14, 2004... Byline: Public Policy Institute of California SAN FRANCISCO, April 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Busy and getting busier - that describes the airports, seaports, highways, and railways in California that move trade traffic through the state on...

Public Health Institute Celebrates 40th Year of Success in Public Health.
April 14, 2004... Byline: Public Health Institute OAKLAND, Calif., April 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Public Health Institute (PHI), a nationally and internationally renowned non-profit organization, is marking its 40th anniversary at a Gala celebrating...

Rebuilding Rwanda With Specialty Coffee: Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International, Thanksgiving Coffee Collaborate to Help People, Gorillas.
April 15, 2004... Byline: Straus Communications SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., April 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Ten years after the Rwandan genocide, a small Northern California coffee roaster may have a solution for rebuilding the Rwandan economy and protecting the...

Babson College, USA, and Tsinghua University, Beijing, Partner to Deliver Custom Executive Education in China.
April 15, 2004... Byline: Babson College Wellesley, Mass., April 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- President Brian M. Barefoot of Babson College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, U.S.A., the number-one ranked business school worldwide for entrepreneurship (U.S. News &...

Economists to Discuss Global Outsourcing at April 30 Meeting; Say Long-Term U.S. Competitiveness at Stake.
April 15, 2004... Byline: University of California, Santa Cruz SANTA CRUZ, Calif., April 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Headlines that decry the outsourcing of U.S. jobs are missing the point, according to economists who say the United States faces a far greater...

UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition Announces Finalists; Seven Teams to Present Tech Plans to Public on April 29.
April 15, 2004... Byline: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif., April 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- The sixth annual UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition has announced its finalists who will compete for $52,500 in prizes in the final round on...

Finalists Vie for $147,000 in Prizes in Life Sciences Business Plan Competition.
April 15, 2004... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Eight finalists, including three from Indiana, have been chosen to compete for $147,000 in prizes on Wednesday (4/21) during the second annual Purdue University...

First 3-D Look at Diesel Particles Gives Clues to Cleaner Engines.
April 16, 2004... Byline: Argonne National Laboratory ARGONNE, Ill., April 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- In the first use ever of a new three-dimensional technique to study diesel engine emissions, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National...

Expert on Corporate Succession Planning Available for Comment.
April 19, 2004... Byline: Pennsylvania State University UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., April 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Penn State expert William J. Rothwell, professor of workforce education and development, is available for interviews for immediate stories on CEO...

Turing Award Honors Alan Kay as Pioneer of Personal Computers; Leader of Smalltalk Team Sought to Make Computers Accessible.
April 19, 2004... Byline: Association for Computing Machinery NEW YORK, April 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- ACM has named Alan Kay the winner of the 2003 Turing Award, considered the "Nobel Prize of Computing," for leading the team that invented Smalltalk, an...

National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization Salutes Hospice Volunteers During National Volunteer Week.
April 19, 2004... Byline: National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- April 18 to April 24 is National Volunteer Week 2004, and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization is honoring the...

Rice University Graduate Women in Business Chapter to Award Scholarships Honoring Women; Endowment Funded With Proceeds From Women in Leadership Conference.
April 19, 2004... Byline: Rice University HOUSTON, April 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Three scholarships totaling $9,000 will be awarded to three female students at the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management. The creation of the endowed scholarships,...

Top Business Founders, Leaders Gather at Babson College.
April 19, 2004... Byline: Babson College BABSON PARK, Mass., April 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Babson College, the number one business school for entrepreneurship, hosts former and current founders/leaders of businesses such as Staples, Dunkin' Donuts, Thermo...

USC Marshall School of Business Honors Wells Fargo Alumni; 'Decade of Distinction' Event Recognizes Corporate Partnership Between USC Marshall School of Business and Wells Fargo & Company Executives.
April 20, 2004... Byline: USC Marshall School of Business LOS ANGELES, April 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of Southern California (USC) Marshall School of Business honored Wells Fargo & Company for a decade of distinguished corporate partnership...

Blazing a Trail for Women, Smith College Prepares to Graduate the Country's First All-Female Class of Engineers; Business, Academia Eager to Tap Talents of Diverse Group.
April 20, 2004... Byline: Smith College NORTHAMPTON, Mass., April 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Amid increasing calls to bolster the nation's scientific literacy and enhance its high-tech workforce, a pioneering and much watched engineering program is about to...

Higher Education's Problems With Illegal Student Downloading Have Just Begun, Says First Quantitative Research on Digital Entertainment Habits of College-Bound High School Seniors.
April 20, 2004... Byline: Bentley College WALTHAM, Mass., April 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- In the first quantitative research on the digital entertainment habits of 285 high school students recently accepted to college, a study by Bentley College revealed...

Foundation Joins Agriculture-Related Intellectual Property Organization.
April 20, 2004... Byline: The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation ARDMORE, Okla., April 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Noble Foundation is participating in the Public Intellectual Property Resource for Agriculture (PIPRA), a collaboration among public and private...

Employers Say Consumer-Driven Health Plans Likely to Grow, But Have Concerns That Sicker Employees Won't Enroll.
April 20, 2004... Byline: Health Affairs BETHESDA, Md., April 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Employers are becoming increasingly familiar with various types of "consumer-driven" health plans, according to a new article published today on the Health Affairs Web...

Employment Outlook Improves for MBA Grads, New Graduate Management Admission Council Survey Says; Corporate Recruiters More Optimistic About Economy.
April 21, 2004... Byline: Lipman Hearne, Inc. MCLEAN, Va., April 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Companies that hire MBA graduates are more optimistic about their recruiting plans this year. Only half are blaming the economy for limiting their hiring, compared to...

Student Businesses Square Off in Babson College Business Plan Competition.
April 21, 2004... Byline: Babson College WELLESLEY, Mass., April 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Students and their finest business plans will compete for top honors at Babson College's annual business plan competition on Friday, April 23 in Olin Hall. ...

American Geriatrics Society Press Conference to Be Held at National Press Club in Washington, D.C., April 27: Report Shows Critical Gap Between Geriatric Training, Demand for Care.
April 21, 2004... Byline: American Geriatrics Society NEW YORK, April 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) and the Association of Directors of Geriatric Academic Programs (ADGAP) are releasing "Geriatric Medicine: A Clinical...

Marguerite Casey Foundation Gives $6.4 Million in Grants to Support Low- and Middle-Income Families Advocating for Social Change.
April 21, 2004... Byline: Marguerite E. Casey Foundation SEATTLE, April 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Marguerite Casey Foundation today announced $6.4 million in new grants to 22 community-based organizations across the United States, including $300,000 to help...

Lightweighting Key to Efficient, Safe Vehicles.
April 21, 2004... Byline: Rocky Mountain Institute SNOWMASS, Colo., April 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Rocky Mountain Institute announces the publication of "Hypercars, Hydrogen and the Automotive Transition" in the acclaimed International Journal of Vehicle...

Expert: FCC's New Regulatory Strategy Could Hasten Demise of Indecency Regulation, Says Duke Law Professor.
April 22, 2004... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., April 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Until Janet Jackson's breast appeared for 0.7 seconds during the Super Bowl halftime show, the Federal Communications Commission's penalties for broadcast indecency were...

Global Social Venture Competition Selects International Winners to Launch Businesses Beyond Pure Profit; Judges Impressed by Social Ventures Focusing on Educational, Environmental, Urban Regeneration Issues.
April 22, 2004... Byline: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif., April 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Four winning social ventures from the US and Europe took the top awards at the Global Social Venture Competition held at London Business School on...

San Diego Startup Wins $147,000 Life Sciences Business Plan Competition.
April 22, 2004... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- FFA Sciences, from San Diego, took the top prize of $50,000 Wednesday (4/21) in the second annual Purdue University Life Sciences Business Plan Competition,...

NASA Sets Genesis Spacecraft Mid-Air Recovery Media Day, April 29.
April 22, 2004... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., April 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Hollywood stunt pilots are working with NASA's Genesis mission to capture NASA's first mission to collect samples from space since Apollo 17 returned Moon...

Physicians and Patients Need to Work Together to Plan New Electronic Relationships.
April 22, 2004... Byline: Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center BOSTON, April 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- The "office visit" of the future will likely involve patient and physician sitting in front of cameras mounted atop computer terminals, the doctor examining...

Pentagon Memorial Fund Chooses Convio to Help Raise $30 Million for Washington, D.C., Memorial Honoring Sept. 11 Victims; Convio's Online Tools Enable Organization to Generate Support Nationwide for Pentagon Memorial Park.
April 22, 2004... Byline: Convio AUSTIN, Texas, April 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Pentagon Memorial Fund - established to create a memorial commemorating the many lives lost in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the Pentagon - has selected Convio...

Citizens Can Tell Regulators to Make Public Deadly Hospital-Acquired Infections Rates; Government-Sponsored Nationwide Forums Seek Input on Hospital Performance.
April 23, 2004... Byline: Consumers Union AUSTIN, Texas, April 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Consumers throughout the nation will have a rare opportunity to talk to federal regulators and influence public policy on an issue that claims almost 90,000 American...

University of Central Florida Technology Incubator Named Incubator of the Year.
April 26, 2004... Byline: University of Central Florida ORLANDO, Fla., April 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Philip Chen, a seasoned scientist who had studied and practiced medicine for years, had some great ideas for starting a clinical laboratory but knew little...

King Library Receives 'Savings by Design' Award for Energy Savings from Pacific Gas and Electric Company; PG&E Hands Over Check to City of San Jose, San Jose State University.
April 26, 2004... Byline: San Jose State University SAN JOSE, Calif., April 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library has been awarded a $250,000 "Savings by Design" program award by Pacific Gas and Electric Company. PG&E will present...

News Tip: Mergers Such As Sanofi-Aventis May Actually Create Room for New Players in Pharmaceutical Market, Duke Professor Says.
April 26, 2004... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., April 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mergers like Monday's deal between pharmaceutical companies Sanofi-Synthelabo and Aventis SA may actually create room for the growth of smaller companies, a Duke...

Report Shows Critical Gap Between Geriatric Training, Demand for Care; Baby boomers Counting on Long, Healthy Life May Not Find Doctors Wise to Their Aging Bodies.
April 27, 2004... Byline: American Geriatrics Society WASHINGTON, April 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- Baby boomers who are counting on a long and healthy life may not find doctors who can provide appropriate treatment as they age. That's because there is a...

Columbia Senior Executive Program to Be Held June 27 to July 23; International Attendance Grows to Two-Thirds, Primarily From Asia/Pacific; Average Age Rises to Mid-40's.
April 27, 2004... Byline: Columbia Business School NEW YORK, April 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- International participation at Columbia Business School's Senior Executive Program (CSEP) is shifting from Western Europe to Asia/Pacific Rim countries as Asia...

Pacific Northwest National Lab on Fast Track for Hydrogen Fuel Reformer.
April 27, 2004... Byline: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory RICHLAND, Wash., April 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are developing a system to rapidly produce hydrogen from gasoline...

Winners Named in Harvard Business School's Eighth Annual Business Plan Contest; Extend Fertility, Sun Edison Take Top Honors.
April 27, 2004... Byline: Harvard Business School BOSTON, April 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- Months of hard work paid dividends yesterday for finalists in Harvard Business School's eighth annual Business Plan Contest, as teams of second-year MBA students took...

News Tip: Consumers Key to Success of Bush's Electronic Medical Record Effort, Duke Professor Says.
April 27, 2004... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., April 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- Establishing personal electronic health records for most Americans within the next 10 years is essential to radically changing the current model of U.S. health care, said...

A Keane Perspective on Iraq, Business; University of Southern California Business Professor Embeds in Iraq, Returns With Sobering Insights.
April 28, 2004... Byline: USC Marshall School of Business LOS ANGELES, April 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- Professor Michael Keane, who lectures on financial strategy at the University of Southern California (USC) Marshall School, spent nine days earlier this...

Student-Built Projectile Could Help Soldiers Detect Bombs, Chemicals.
April 28, 2004... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., April 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- Infantry soldiers suspicious that a truck or box may contain explosives or chemical weapons may soon be able to find out for sure by shooting the target with a...

Mayor Bloomberg, New York Business Community Honor Columbia Business School's Dean Meyer Feldberg.
April 28, 2004... Byline: Columbia Business School NEW YORK, April 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- Columbia Business School will celebrate the leadership of Dean Meyer Feldberg, '67, during its 28th Annual Dinner. The event will be attended by 1,000 of the...

Undergraduate Investors at Small Liberal Arts College Earn Big Return; 52 percent Fund Growth Outperforms Larger Schools, Wall Street.
April 28, 2004... Byline: Moravian College BETHLEHEM, Pa., April 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- For the second time that it has attended, the Moravian College's Amrhein Investment Club took first place in the undergraduate division of Redefining Investment...

Stanford Business School Study: Are Discount Tickets Good for Business?
April 29, 2004... Byline: Stanford Graduate School of Business STANFORD, Calif., April 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Most Broadway plays charge a startling variety of prices for tickets. That person sitting next to you in the back of the orchestra might have paid...

Big Banks Take Baby Steps: 8 Out of 10 of 'The Liquidators' Move to Meet Rainforest Action Network's Earth Day Deadline.
April 29, 2004... Byline: Rainforest Action Network SAN FRANCISCO, April 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Rainforest Action Network's Earth Day deadline for "The Liquidators" to meet or beat new industry best practices set by Citigroup resulted in movement from 8...

Thirteen Schools Gain AACSB International Accreditation.
April 29, 2004... Byline: AACSB International - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business ST. LOUIS, April 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- The following institutions received initial accreditation in April from AACSB International - The Association...

Prison Construction Boom Reaches 3 in 10 Counties in States With Greatest Prison Growth.
April 29, 2004... Byline: The Urban Institute WASHINGTON, April 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- With the explosion in the number of state and federal prisoners during the past two decades has come a significant expansion in the count and location of prison...

Former Colorado Springs Mayor Mary Lou Makepeace Now Leads Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado.
April 29, 2004... Byline: The Gill Foundation COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., April 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Former Colorado Springs Mayor Mary Lou Makepeace recently joined the Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado as the new executive director, and is already actively...

Goodwill Industries Reports Increases in 2003 Service and Revenues; Human Services Agency Celebrates Goodwill Industries Week May 2-8.
April 30, 2004... Byline: Goodwill Industries International BETHESDA, Md., April 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- More than 600,000 people benefited from Goodwill job-training and career services in 2003, and the agency reports a new high of $2.21 (b) billion in...

A Look Back at Urban Sprawl; Major New Book by Barnard College Urban Expert Takes Comprehensive Look at Difficult Trend.
April 30, 2004... Byline: Barnard College NEW YORK, April 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- As today's policymakers struggle with the impact of urban sprawl on cities and outlying municipalities across the nation, a major new book by urban expert Owen Gutfreund, a...

U.S. Job Jitters Are Due to Global Labor Oversupply; New Policies, U.S. Leadership Needed to Expand Employment at Global Level.
April 30, 2004... Byline: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace WASHINGTON, April 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- In a provocative new policy brief released today, Carnegie Endowment analyst Sandra Polaski argues that there is currently a huge global mismatch...

Columbia School of Dental and Oral Surgery Issues 'Call to Action' on Oral Health in Elderly; Dean Ira Lamster's Editorial in May AJPH Calls for National 'Coordinated Effort' to Address Growing Health Problem.
April 30, 2004... Byline: Columbia University Health Sciences Division NEW YORK, April 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- America's seniors suffer a disproportionate burden of oral disease while having fewer resources for appropriate care -- and these issues will be...

Barnard Students Learn Financial Fluency Through New Program.
April 30, 2004... Byline: Barnard College NEW YORK, April 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- By the time they graduate, students at Barnard College will learn how to wisely manage their finances and become savvier consumers through a new program that offers basic...

HMO Physicians Not Screening All Eligible Patients for Colorectal Cancer, UCLA Study Finds.
April 30, 2004... Byline: UCLA LOS ANGELES, May 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Primary care providers do not screen all eligible patients for colorectal cancer, the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States, according to a UCLA study appearing...