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"2013 Carnegie International" Spike Art Quarterly, 2013

The U.S. Department of Justice has decided not to file an amicus curiae brief in a high-profile copyright case involving Georgia State University and several publishers.

For drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline, the 17-page article in the New England Journal of Medicine represented a coup.

The 2006 report described a trial that compared three diabetes drugs and concluded that Avandia, the company’s new drug, performed best.

“We now have clear evidence from a large international study that the initial use of [Avandia] is more effective than standard therapies,” a senior vice president of GlaxoSmithKline, Lawson Macartney, said in a news release.

“If free and equal access to information is one of the hallmarks of a great society then our libraries are not just libraries but grand sanctuaries of freedom.”

Principals Drop Ball on Teacher Retention, Study Says

Policymakers, administrators, and advocacy groups have correctly diagnosed a major problem plaguing the teaching profession—high rates of teacher attrition—but have missed the mark in their prescriptions for fixing it, concludes a new report released this morning by the New York City-based TNTP, formerly The New Teacher Project.

Library Patrons’ Want E-Books Over Every Other Downloadable Media

Library patrons, it turns out, are just like everybody else when it comes to e-books: increasingly, they want them.

According to the new Patron Profiles report from Library Journal and Bowker, 28% of library patrons want to download e-books at their local libraries. That number increases when it comes to library patrons who also read e-books: nearly two-thirds of those want e-books available at their local libraries.

E-books were more in demand among library patrons than music and video.

digby, on professional troll Rush Limbaugh’s recent tirade against liberal men.

Although it’s clear that Rush has discovered my secret Crazed Female Sex Demons For Progressivism and World Domination weekly meetings, I will always be proud to be with the party that operates, to quote FDR, through the following premise: “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”