Subject: Top news today: State Dept. considers contract with Amazon for 35,000...
From: "LinkedIn Today" <[email-masked]>
To: "R. Hunter" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 11:46:03 +0000 (UTC)

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State Dept. considers contract with Amazon for 35,000 Kindles
The State Department is currently in negotiations with Amazon for Kindle e-Readers and content under a $16.5 million, 5-year no-bid contract, according to Nextgov. The State plans to stock designated libraries and U.S.-friendly...
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Plan Offers Better Pay, Job Stability, and a Career Path for Contingent Faculty
A plan that would provide job stability, a clear path of advancement, and better pay for faculty who work off the tenure track—roughly 70 percent of the professoriate nationwide—was the talk of a session on Wednesday at the...
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AAUP Debates the Role of Its State Conferences in Guarding Faculty Rights
The American Association of University Professors has long prided itself in being an organization that protects faculty members' rights. But when scholars appeal to the national organization for aid, many find it unwilling to...
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Ministers 'to redefine poverty'
The number of children living in poverty in the UK fell by 300,000 last year, official figures have revealed. In 2010-11, 18% of children (2.3 million) lived in households classed as below the poverty line, a 2% decrease on the previous year.
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Businesses Serving the Poor Need to Get Over Their Unease About Profit
If you've ever had anything to do with business initiatives among the world's poor - the so-called bottom of the economic pyramid - you've no doubt heard the advice that enterprises in this space need to aim for low prices, low...
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