Kitchen Cabinet: Style & Design Guide.
Though today's consumers are gravitating toward streamlined looks in their homes--particularly in the kitchen--they aren't sacrificing style, comfort or function in the process. So, it's no surprise that when it comes to kitchen cabinets, clean lines with classic styling remain all the rage, along with storage options that help...

David Joseph Ballard, MD, PhD, FACP: a conversation with the editor.
Dr. David Ballard (Figure 1) is senior vice president for health care research and improvement for the Baylor Health Care System and head of the Institute for Quality at Baylor. He came to Baylor from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, in June 1999. Dr. Ballard was born in Lexington,...

ProLogis Leases 750,000-Square-Foot Distribution Center in New Jersey to LG Electronics, USA.
DENVER, Feb. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ProLogis , the world's largest owner, manager and developer of distribution facilities, announced today that it has leased more than 750,000 square feet of distribution space in central New Jersey to LG Electronics, USA Inc., the North American subsidiary of the global consumer electronics,...

MBUSA Reports November New Car Sales of 14,102.
MONTVALE, N.J., Dec. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Mercedes-Benz USA (MBUSA) reported November sales of 14,102 vehicles, bringing the company's year-to-date volume to 206,396, an 8.6 percent decrease over the year-to-date record set last year. Sales highlights for Mercedes-Benz USA include a 16.9 percent increase in C-Class sales and a 5.5...

Siemens: with over 400,000 employees in 192 countries Siemens offers minority students great opportunities for growth.
Benjamin Wells [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Title: National Director College & University Markets Job Description: Develop business opportunities for multiple Siemens operating companies by matching customer requirements to Siemens competencies in the areas of: Telecommunications, Security and Building Technologies. Degrees and awards: Electronic...

Megabus.com Expands Northeast Service.
$1, express bus service's popularity fuels expansion to four cities NEW YORK, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Megabus.com today announced the expansion of its low-cost, city-to-city, express bus service to four additional cities. Megabus.com service is now available to and from Albany, N.Y.; Rochester, N.Y.; Syracuse, N.Y. and...

Raptors of the World: A Field Guide.
RAPTORS OF THE WORLD: A FIELD GUIDE. By James Ferguson-Lees and David Christie. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, USA. 2005:320 pp., 16 figs., 118 plates, and 7 tables. ISBN: 13-978-0-69112684-5. $29.95 (paper).--This new "field guide" to the vultures, hawks, eagles, and falcons of the world represents a distillation...

Romancing I. F. Stone.
By the time he died in 1989, the once outcast and radical journalist I. F. Stone, fondly called "Izzy" by all who knew him, had become an icon. The blurbs on the back of Myra MacPherson's new look at Stone's life are from the likes of journalistic establishment dons...

The secret of high-temperature superconductivity finally revealed?
For more than 20 years since the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity, scientists have been debating the underlying physical mechanism for the phenomenon, which has the potential to revolutionize electrical power distribution. Now, results yielded by two years of experiments carried out at Princeton University, USA, have a group of...

Moon seeks formation of new religious body at United Nations.
Controversial Korean evangelist and right-wing political operative Sun Myung Moon is pressing for the creation of a new body at the United Nations that would deal with religious affairs. The Moon-owned Washington Times newspaper reported Oct. 4 that hundreds of religious leaders demonstrated at the UN headquarters...