EPA Launches National Cell Phone Recycling Week: April 6-12
News release: “As part of its efforts to celebrate Earth Day during the entire month of April, the U.S Environmental Protection Agency has launched National Cell Phone Recycling Week, April 6 through April 12. This joint effort between EPA’s Plug-In To eCycling program and leading cell phone manufacturers, retailers and service providers increases national awareness about the importance of cell phone recycling."
Related postings on recycling and e-waste

The Federal Communications Commission is working on a national broadband plan, with the goal of ensuring that all consumers have access to services that are fast and affordable. The plan is due to Congress by Feb. 17, 2010. The public will be able to submit comments to the FCC for 60 days, with another 30 days for reply comments. The agency will take them into consideration as it crafts the USA's first national broadband plan. Currently, broadband costs $40 to $60 a month on average, putting it out of reach for many low-income consumers.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2009-04-07-fcc-broadband-internet-service_N.htm

TRAC Report: Large Financial Service Corporations Dominate the Corporate World “In the just-ended fiscal year, more than three quarters of the tax returns filed by the nation's largest corporations came from financial service organizations—banks, insurance companies, investment advisors, brokerage houses, securities services and the like. And the same group of businesses is credited with controlling 72% of all large-corporation assets, with earning 46% of the net income of all large corporations and reporting 33% of the taxes in this area. Despite the overwhelming place of the financial services sector in the broader corporate world, however, documents and data obtained by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) show that in FY 2008 the IRS allocated only 15% of its overall corporate revenue agents to the agency group that has the lead authority for auditing this complex and now troubled segment of the nation's economy." Related postings on financial system

Two perspectives on shared experience by brothers
Frank and Malachy McCourt http://www.newburyportnews.com/pulife/local_story_073002144.html
Geoffrey and Tobias Wolff
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/05/magazine/the-brothers-wolff.html
Matthew and Michael Dickman http://www.seattlepi.com/books/398420_dickmans03.html
Four versions of a murder by witnesses
http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides_I/instance_of_the_fingerpost1.asp

A Space Odyssey revisited
Films were set in 2002, 2010, 2061 and 3001. Read summaries and learn of discrepancies at: http://www.scifidimensions.com/Dec00/2001books.htm

NAMES FROM NAMES
Zardoz A resident of 23rd-century Earth becomes involved in a revolution after discovering the hidden truth about society's rulers in the sci-fi film Zardoz. The main character, Zed, played by Sean Connery, understands the origin of the name Zardoz—Wizard of Oz—bringing him to a true awareness of Zardoz as a skilfull manipulation rather than an actual deity. http://www.answers.com/topic/zardoz
Dan Teal Benjamin Galvin changes his name to Dan Teal after Dante Alighieri, and tries to stop people from discrediting Dante in this whodunit set in 1865 Boston.
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/The_Dante_Club

REAL NAMES
Francois-Marie Arouet (Voltaire) (1694-1778) French playwright and poet
Friederich von Hardenberg (Novalis) (1772-1801) German poet
Jean Baptiste Poquelin (Molière) (1622-1673) French actor and playwright

Quotes
Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Thomas Moore (1779-1852) Irish musician and songwriter
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/thomas_moore.html

A printer's devil was an apprentice in a printing establishment who performed a number of tasks, such as mixing tubs of ink and fetching type. A number of famous men served as printer's devils in their youth, including Ambrose Bierce, Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Fuller, Thomas Jefferson, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Warren Harding, John Kellogg, Lyndon Johnson, Joseph Lyons, and Lázaro Cárdenas. The origin of printer's devil is not definitively known. Various competing theories of the phrase's origin follow. Printer's devil has been ascribed to the fact that printer's apprentices would inevitably have parts of their skin stained black by the ink used in printing. As black was associated with the “black arts," the apprentice came to be called a devil. Another origin is linked to the fanciful belief among printers that a special devil haunted every print shop, performing mischief such as inverting type, misspelling words or removing entire lines of completed type. The apprentice became a substitute source of blame and came to be called a printer's devil by association. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer's_devil