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December 8, 2006

Blogging and publishing tools for journalists

Online Journalism Review: Easy Web publishing utilities for journalists -- New York Times online producer Jonathan Morgan shares a utility bag full of nifty tools for budding journalists to add pop to any Web content. Article covers blogging, multimedia, generating RSS feeds, forum and HTML and CSS.

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Wall Street's multimillion-dollar lure

NY Times: Lure of Great Wealth Affects Career Choices looks at how Wall Street is so lucrative that doctors, lawyers and others are leaving their primary professions to receive the huge rewards there.

A decade into the practice of medicine, still striving to become “a well regarded physician-scientist,” Robert H. Glassman concluded that he was not making enough money. So he answered an ad in the New England Journal of Medicine from a business consulting firm hiring doctors.

And today, after moving on to Wall Street as an adviser on medical investments, he is a multimillionaire.

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Army strains to keep equipment operating

Washington Post -- U.S. Army Battling To Save Equipment: Field upon field of more than 1,000 battered M1 tanks, howitzers and other armored vehicles sit amid weeds here at the 15,000-acre Anniston Army Depot -- the idle, hulking formations symbolic of an Army that is wearing out faster than it is being rebuilt.

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