Web-based business helps connect custom builders, buyers The Indianapolis Star
Andy Elsbury had a 6,300-square-foot house to build and about 6,300 decisions to make. Which knobs for the kitchen cabinets? There were 100,000 to choose from. What about floor tiles? Nine rooms needed them. There were too many toilets to count. Archways over doors. Carpet, brick and countertops.
Nationally-known Design Star Vern Yip to appear at Capital Home & Garden Show Fairfax Times
Known to a legion of cable television do-it-yourself viewers from his work on TLC's Trading Spaces and the hot, new HGTV show, Design Star, multi-talented designer Vern Yip will return to his McLean roots for a two-day appearance at the popular Capital Home & Garden Show Feb. 23 and 24 at the Dulles Expo Center in Chantilly.
CEO Forum: Corning's Wendell Weeks USA Today
Last week, I hosted another USA TODAY CEO Forum, this one at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler School of Business. In front of about 300 students and faculty, I interviewed Corning CEO Wendell Weeks about his career and one
Deputies Shoot Vietnam Veteran The Morning News
FAYETTEVILLE -- Albert Dennis Allen returned Friday from his mother's funeral. Sometime that morning, the Vietnam War veteran got off a bus and returned to his mobile home on Latta Road in Morrow.
CEO brought Corning back from death's door USATODAY.com via Yahoo! News
In a story much like a corporate Greek fable, Wendell Weeks grew up inside Corning and helped lead the company to fantastic heights making fiber optics during the telecom boom. Fiber is the key to carrying huge amounts of data at high speed. The industry collapsed in 2001, nearly killing Corning.
The project Guardian Unlimited
The opportunity to participate in the US-led effort to reconstruct Iraq as part of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), which ran Iraq's government from April 2004 until June 2004, attracted all manner of Americans: restless professionals, Arabic-speaking academics, development specialists and war-zone adventurers.
Second extract from Rajiv Chandrasekaran's book: Imperial Life in the Emerald City Guardian Unlimited
Part two of Rajiv Chandrasekaran's account of life in Iraq's Green Zone.
Congress inching closer to immigration reform, lawmakers say The Morning News
WASHINGTON -- Unable last year to bridge a wide gulf on immigration, the House and Senate need to quickly revive work on an issue important to Arkansas workers, families and employers, lawmakers said Wednesday.
News in brief Holmen Courier
Here are a selection of brief news items from this week's paper edition, as well as a few news briefs that didn't make it in the paper. The Onalaska Community Life and the Holmen Courier, took home several awards from the Wisconsin Newspaper Association's Better Newspaper Contest last week.
EU looks at regulatory challenges for Europe's Telecom industry PublicTechnology.net
20 th Plenary Meeting of the European Regulators Group Brussels, last week. "I am glad to have this opportunity to address you today at the occasion of the 20 th plenary meeting of the European Regulators Group for Electronic Communications Networks and Services (ERG) [1] . The issues you are deliberating today will have an important impact on the legislative work of the European Commission, the
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