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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.
• THE LEADING MEN: Merry Poppins ! (Playbill)
  Like Santa's sack of goodies, this holiday column is a grab bag. It includes a cheery chat with Gavin Lee ( Mary Poppins ), our list of highlights of 2006 and exclusive news about "The Leading Men II" concert for Broadway Cares.
• Verizon Foundation Awards $323,000 in Literacy, Domestic Violence Prevention and Technology Grants to 33 Greater Puget (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
  Award-winning actor James Earl Jones joined King County Executive Ron Sims today at Town Hall to help NPower Seattle kick off its newly created NPower Technology Service Corps. The collaborative project will connect students from King County's Digital Bridge Academy and the Technology Access Foundation with local nonprofit organizations that need help with their technology infrastructure.
• Verizon Foundation Awards $323,000 in Literacy, Domestic Violence Prevention and Technology Grants to 33 Greater Puget (Broadcast Newsroom)
  SEATTLE , Dec. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Award-winning actor James Earl Jones joined King County Executive Ron Sims today at Town Hall to help NPower Seattle kick off its newly created NPower Technology Service Corps.
• A-State reports solid progress in student mix (Jonesboro Sun)
  JONESBORO -- Arkansas State University administrators said Tuesday that the university has made "significant advances" in diversity initiatives over the last few years.
• Faculty urged to work toward increasing graduate diversity (Stanford Report)
  The Faculty Senate heard a report on graduate student body diversity last week that urged Stanford's biggest schools and departments to look critically at their record of admitting women and underrepresented minorities over the past 20 years and what they can do to increase those numbers in the years ahead as part of the university's mission to train a broadly diverse graduate population to take

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