identiMetrics and BIO-key Offer Biometric Finger Scanning for School Food Service.
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-22 October 2008-identiMetrics and BIO-key Offer Biometric Finger Scanning for School Food Service(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com BIO-key International, a provider of finger-based biometric identification and wireless public safety, and identiMetrics, a supplier of biometric finger scanning ID for schools, announced a new release...

Public school or private school? One family's journey.
Public or private? We asked ourselves this question each time our daughter Anna was due to change schools: from preschool to elementary school, from elementary school to middle school, and from middle school to high school. Anna has serious learning differences, but she's bright. Since she learns...

Assumption, colleges scramble after freeze on investment fund.
Byline: John Christoffersen NEW HAVEN, Conn. - An investment fund that serves about 1,000 colleges and private schools partially froze withdrawals this week amid the credit crunch, forcing colleges to develop new plans to pay bills. Wachovia Bank, trustee for the $9.3 billion Short Term...

OBITUARIES.
Byline: The Register-Guard Carol Dampier Carol Joann Dampier of Henderson, Nev., formerly of Lane County, died Sept. 20 of heart failure. She was 65. The funeral was held Sept. 24 in Boulder City, Nev. She was born Aug. 8, 1943, in Eugene to...

Effects of Enron on future Russian business leaders: a time line survey.
Russia has emerged as a new capitalistic country with a prior history of corruption under the state controlled regime. Will word of corruption in America stop efforts for an ethical business climate in the new Russia? Has the Enron scandal affected Russian views of business? In pursuit of the...

Ray Chapman's training legacy.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On February 2, 2008, the defensive shooting world lost one of its legitimate superstars when Ray Chapman passed into history just a few months short of his 80th birthday. His was a career that began in WWII, where he lied about his age to join...

Private school gets board's nod; Master's Christian Academy.
Byline: Lisa D. Welsh HOLDEN - After deciding whether it had the authority to approve the request of Master's Christian Academy to operate a private school in Princeton, the Wachusett Regional School Committee voted 13-2 in favor of that request. Chairwoman Margaret Watson abstained. ...

Vouchers vanquished: Utah voters overwhelmingly reject scheme to aid religious and other private schools.
Patrick Byrne spent millions of dollars and most of 2007 trying to convince Utahns that funding private schools with public dollars was a grand idea. In the end, however, the wealthy founder of the Internet retail giant, Overstock.com, didn't convince that many people. On Nov. 6, voters...