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1. Detroit News
   The Detroit News is one of the two major newspapers in the U.S. city of Detroit, Michigan. The paper began in 1873 when it rented space in the rival Free Press's building. The News absorbed the Detroit Tribune on Februbary 1,1919, the Detroit Journal on July 21, 1922 and November 7,1960, it bought out and closed the Detroit Times. The square in downtown Detroit where the Times building once stood is still called "Times Square." The Evening News Association, owner of the News, merged with Gannett in 1985.
2. Stuff Magazine -- Men
   The future owners of Dennis Publishing's men's titles plan to fold Stuff as a standalone magazine in the fall and make it a section in flagship Maxim, sources told Mediaweek. No word on the fate of Stuff's staffers. John Lumpkin, publisher of Stuff, said a change in Stuff's publishing schedule is news to him. "There's been no discussion of suspending publication," he said.
3. Dow Jones & Company -- Information
   Dow Jones News/Retrieval, a market leader in online databases, was one of several businesses the company brought together to form the Information Group, which grew to 835 employees and $177 million in revenues by 1989. The Information Group had developed an innovative online searching system that made Dow Jones's electronic database more accessible than those of its closest competitors. The major problem with the electronic publishing business had been executives' reluctance to learn computer access codes in order to gain information. Dow Jones's system delivered the information to subscribers automatically. The Dow Jones system ranked and weighed articles by the number of times the user's access term occurred, delivering a text search with more specific targeting capability rather than a lengthy list of peripherally related articles.
4. Stuff Magazine
   Individuals on the Stuff Magazine and Consumer Electronics Buyers Email Masterfile are upper-income, educated professionals with discretionary income to spend on their interests and pursuits. Their homes are equipped with the latest electronics and technology, from flat-screen TVs and DVD players to high-speed Internet access and digital cable. They are mostly repeat customers, indicating that they are constantly expanding, updating and upgrading their home electronics equipment and systems.
5. The New Deal -- Training
   Saturday night, New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer was at the Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, where President Bush sang a funny song about leaving office. By then Spitzer knew full well he could be leaving first, brought down in a prostitution scandal.
6. Tom Brokaw -- Greatest Generation
   Tom Brokaw's follow-up to his original Greatest Generation special. In this documentary, a woman whose father died piloting a bomber over Europe is visited by Brokaw and shares family snapshots and a home movie of the father she never knew. Research into her father's fatal mission led her to survivors from his crew, and the camera follows as she meets elderly veterans who tell her firsthand of her father's heroism.
7. Banking -- Banking Center
   The ETSU Center for Banking is a resource for students, bankers, and researchers on banking topics. It was established in 1986, with financial assistance from the State of Tennessee, in the University's College of Business. The purposes of the Center are to:
8. Olsen
   Olsen was the co-founder and chairman of Sensors Unlimited Inc., a company developing optoelectronic devices such as sensitive near-infrared (NIR) and shortwave-infrared (SWIR) cameras. One of Sensors Unlimited's major customers is NASA. Currently, Olsen is President of GHO Ventures, LLC, in Princeton, New Jersey, where he manages his “angel” investments, South African winery, Montana ranch, and performs numerous speaking engagements to encourage children – especially minority and female children – to consider careers in science or engineering. He ... is a professor at Rider University where he teaches a physics class.
9. Data Storage
   Internet Data Storage & Systems Inc. provides offsite data storage and disaster prevention. The company offers several core products to its clients that include outsourcing of network infrastructure, server farming, co- location, full service hosting, application hosting, and its patent pending iareanet network services. Internet Data Storage & Systems was founded in 1999 and provides services to customers worldwide. The company is headquartered in Staten Island, N.Y. Its telephone number is +1-877-638-8875; on the Web: http://www.internetdatastorage.com/ . For information about patent- pending iareanet products and services, visit http://www.iareanet.com/ .
10. Focus on the Family -- Families
    "The Sanctity of Human Life Director for Focus on the Family says the ministry's Option Ultrasound program has reached an exciting milestone. The initiative to equip pregnancy resource centers (PRCs) nationwide for ultrasound services as a way to prevent abortions recently saw the placement of its 200th imaging machine in Joplin, Missouri." Click here for the article.

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