CNN.com - Comp sci grads turn away from tech - Jun 20, 2005

"Mo begins work in the fall as a management consultant with The Boston Consulting Group, helping to lead projects at multinational companies. Consulting, he says, will insulate him from the offshore outsourcing that's sending thousands of once-desirable computer programming jobs overseas.

More important, Mo believes his consulting gig is more lucrative, rewarding and imaginative than a traditional tech job. He characterized his summer programming internships as 'too focused or localized, even meaningless.'"

Rape in China: A 3-Month-Long Nightmare for 26 Schoolgirls - New York Times

Rape in China: A 3-Month-Long Nightmare for 26 Schoolgirls - New York Times

CNN.com - Does an employer's silence�speak volumes? - Jun 15, 2005

"Job hunters used to measure their progress by the number of rejection letters or calls received. That's getting hard to do these days, with many candidates reporting they never hear back at all from companies they've interviewed with."

Studies Find X-Rays Just as Accurate as Digital Mammography

"Three studies on several thousand women have demonstrated that X-ray images are just as accurate as so-called digital mammograms, in which high-tech equipment records images electronically."

Students 'bribed' by iPod scheme

"'It's giving the wrong message about the value of education. It tells teenagers they don't have to do anything unless they are getting a sweetener.'"

Intel Goes to School - Computerworld

"'We are trying to prototype a future in which there are many, many small sensor devices that are able to get a very fine physical sensing of the real world,' says professor Joseph Hellerstein, director of the Intel lab at Berkeley." Umm..Big companies are eyeing at students!!

Students take up cash for college

"Almost 300,000 teenagers in England have received payments of up to �30 a week for staying in education."

Google abets open-source internships

Google on Tuesday kicked off its Summer Code program, aimed at enticing students to try their hand at open-source software development. The two-and-a-half-month program will team up to 200 students with open-source organizations, which will monitor their progress. If they successfully complete a project, the students will receive $4,500 each.

Study: Shoppers Naive About Online Pricing

The Internet empowers careful shoppers to conveniently compare prices and features across thousands of stores. But it also enables businesses to quietly collect detailed records about a customer's behavior and preferences and set prices accordingly. Changing prices is generally lawful unless doing so discriminates against a consumer's race or gender or violates antitrust or price-fixing laws.

US schools can be saved by business

Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft, raised the debate to a new - and very public - level when he declared recently: "American high schools are obsolete. Until we design them to meet the needs of the 21st century, we will keep limiting - even ruining - the lives of millions of Americans."