Subject: Re [5]:

From: "Eloise Gutierrez" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:11:41 -0300

News bulletin:

Republicans break ranks to oppose tech-backed bill - Politicians usually vote for more spending on math and science education, research. But some Republicans are questioning the logic.

VMware IPO could raise $100 million - EMC subsidiary details profitability and plans for going public in regulatory filing.

Barbie takes form of an MP3 player, shape of an avatar - Mattel unveils Barbie Girls, MP3 players designed to look like dolls. The devices also turn into characters in a new virtual world for girls.<br />Images: Barbie's greatest hits?

VMware IPO could raise $100 million - EMC subsidiary details profitability and plans for going public in regulatory filing.

Newspapers enlist software in Web sales war - A Norwegian company that supplies search technology to business users is looking to help newspaper publishers make more money from online advertising.

Microsoft opens up on Web strategy at Mix07 - Ray Ozzie, other executives to talk up scripting languages for Silverlight and online services at the Web development conference.

Barbie takes form of an MP3 player, shape of an avatar - Mattel unveils Barbie Girls, MP3 players designed to look like dolls. The devices also turn into characters in a new virtual world for girls.<br />Images: Barbie's greatest hits?

Verizon profit falls on discontinued operations - Results are in line with expectations, however, as company continues to invest in Internet and wireless services.

Barbie takes form of an MP3 player, shape of an avatar - Mattel unveils Barbie Girls, MP3 players designed to look like dolls. The devices also turn into characters in a new virtual world for girls.<br />Images: Barbie's greatest hits?

U.S. schools may join inexpensive-laptop project - Citing underprivileged kids in the U.S., project founder Negroponte reverses decision to focus only on poor nations.

Chile: Google Earth moves a village to Argentina - Chile asks Google to fix a mapping error that puts tiny Villa O'Higgins on Argentina's side of the border.
<br />Screenshots: Directions to wrong country?

Motto:

"Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they're blind." Marston Bates

"Science is not a technology, a mysterious cult, a mechanical monster. It is an artistic enterprise, stimulated by curiosity and based on faith in the order and beauty of the universe of which man is a part." Warren Weaver

""It's not unusual to learn more in the 5 minutes between classes than one learns during the 55 minutes of official class time"" Howard Lambert

""I don't mind that you think slowly but I do mind that you are publishing faster than you think."" W. Pauli

"Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science." Henri Poincaire

"Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority." Thomas Huxley

"It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it." Steven Wright

"We should make things as simple as possible, but not simpler." Albert Einstein

"Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us." Samuel Johnson

"If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are fe." Shunryu Suzuki

"It doesn't depend on size, or a cow would catch a rabbit." Pennsylvania German proverb