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• People in business (Tennessean)

  MMA Creative , an advertising and marketing firm, received Davey Awards for two Web sites it designed: Bredesen.com and NelsonBibles.com. The Web sites were recognized for their creativity, user experience and overall quality.

• Diversity Survey Identifies Key Issues for Improving Retention of Minority Professionals Within Finance Firms (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

  OAKLAND, Calif.----The Robert Toigo Foundation, in collaboration with Heidrick & Struggles, today released findings from its "Retention Returns: Insights for More Effective Diversity Initiatives" survey of more than 300 young professionals of color working in finance.

• Extreme Life, Marine Style, Highlights 2006 Ocean Census (Science Daily)

  Frontiers of marine knowledge were extended by the Census of Marine Life in 2006, highlights of which include life adapted to brutal conditions around 407ºC fluids spewing from a seafloor vent (the hottest ever discovered), a mighty microbe 1 cm in diameter, mysterious 1.8 kg (4 lb) lobsters off the Madagascar coast, a US school of fish the size of Manhattan Island, and more unfamiliar than

• National Catholic Reporter (National Catholic Reporter)

  Hundreds of jobs -- professional, administrative, clerical, ministerial and even some secular -- are filled through NCR Classifieds each year.

• CBS News facing diversity questions (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

  Ask Russ Mitchell whether his appointment as news anchor at CBS' "The Early Show" signals that the network is concerned about diversity, and his reply is blunt.

• Education Briefs: Employees at four Tulsa schools garner bonuses (Tulsa World)

  Employees at four Tulsa schools received surprise cash bonuses this week. The Foundation for Tulsa Schools presented $250 checks to every employee at Burroughs and Carnegie elementary schools, Carver Middle School and Booker T. Washington High School.

• Pharmacy’s new face: Asian, African — and female (Gazette.Net)

  BALTIMORE — The lobby of the beige brick building on Pine Street is alive with color: showy African gowns printed in gold, black, red and green vie for prominence with embroidered Mexican blouses and Brazilian soccer jerseys in blinding yellow.

• Farmers toil on outskirts of Fort Worth (KRIS-TV Corpus Christi)

  FORT WORTH, Texas -- Drive down a country road south of I-20, past Kenneth's True Pit Bar-B-Que, and onto the gravel drive that wends through a thick stand of post oak and briar.

• Farmers toil on outskirts of Fort Worth (WOAI)

  FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - Drive down a country road south of I-20, past Kenneth's True Pit Bar-B-Que, and onto the gravel drive that wends through a thick stand of post oak and briar. Under the canopy of native trees are 14,000 graceful Japanese maple saplings in 1- to 10-gallon pots.

• National Catholic Reporter (National Catholic Reporter)

  Hundreds of jobs -- professional, administrative, clerical, ministerial and even some secular -- are filled through NCR Classifieds each year.

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