Artists Say Anthropologie Swiped Their Work
BROOKLYN (CN) - Authors of a limited-edition hand-printed art book say Anthropologie and its corporate parent, Urban Outfitters, surreptitiously photographed their work at the New York Artist Book Fair, then used their design on a rug. Purgatory Pie Press sued Anthropologie, a catalog merchant, in Federal Court.

FROM CCH
Whole ball of tax 2009
http://www.cch.com/wbot2009/018Kids.asp
Tax headlines
http://tax.cchgroup.com/news/headlines/2009/nws41609.htm

The Internal Revenue Code is complex and its sections must be read in the context of the entire code and the court decisions that interpret it. See the code plus tax regulations at: http://www.irs.gov/taxpros/article/0,,id=98137,00.html

Spain Announces Superspeed Trains
Follow up to April 16, 2009, Vision of High-Speed Rail in America, from the WSJ: Spain's Bullet Train Changes Nation -- and Fast - "The growth of the Alta Velocidad Española, or AVE, is having a profound effect on life in Spain, where many people have been fiercely attached to their home regions and reluctant to live or even travel elsewhere. Those centuries-old habits are starting to change as Spain stitches its regions together with a €100 billion ($130 billion) system of 218-mile-an-hour bullet trains."
Spain's High-Speed Frenzy

AP Investigation: Tons of Released Drugs Taint US Water
Via NPR - Marketplace: U.S. manufacturers, including major drugmakers, have legally released at least 271 million pounds of pharmaceuticals into waterways that often provide drinking water--contamination the federal government has consistently overlooked, according to an Associated Press investigation. See also: "graphic shows location of codeine-producing factories near area where a water sample taken from the Delaware River/AP."
Office of National Drug Control Policy: Proper Disposal of Prescription Drugs - Federal Guidelines: "Do not flush prescription drugs down the toilet or drain unless the label or accompanying patient information specifically instructs you to do so."
FDA: How to Dispose of Unused Medicines, Updated April 14, 2009: Guidelines for Drug Disposal / Why the Precautions? / Environmental Concerns

Roland Hedley tweets—you knew that POTUS meant President of the United States—did you know that FLOTUS is First Lady of the United States?
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2009/04/20/090420ta_talk_trudeau

Design of golf courses comes directly from a particular landscape: it was permanently shaped by the ground on which it was invented. http://madisonian.net/2009/04/16/a-small-piece-of-land-surrounded-by-legislation/

Linksland consists of dunes, ridges, hollows shaped by winds near the sea. The terrain is perfect for golf. http://books.google.com/books?id=xYU1eWI37xEC&pg=PA12&lpg=PA12&dq=define+linksland&source=bl&ots=oUryVP5BLn&sig=II_4HdBYRW9-P-kKYLCxf2Xmdxg&hl=en&ei=kdvoSeO4HJDMMPfQzekF&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6#PPA11,M1

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction has been awarded since 1948 for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life. It replaced the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Fiction
A woman, interviewed by NPR on April 19, said she has read all the fiction winners, and plans to buy the 2009 winner this week.

2009 Pulitzer Prizewinners and Nominated Finalists were announced at 3 p.m. on April 20: http://www.pulitzer.org/

Review of the 2009 fiction winner, Olive Kitteridge: http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/reviews/2008-04-23-kitteridge_N.htm

Burmese pythons have established a breeding population in Everglades National Park. Now they're extending their range—heading toward the wildlife-rich lands to the north and south of the park. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will soon decide whether to list the python as an "injurious species," which would result in a ban on imports and interstate trade. U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Florida, has introduced a bill to impose the bans immediately. A bill in the House, co-sponsored by Reps. Alcee Hastings, D- Miramar, and Ron Klein, D-Boca Raton, would require the government to evaluate all species proposed for importation, with the burden of proof on the importer to prove the species would not cause harm. The pet industry is fighting both bills, saying they're too broad to deal with problems caused by particular nonnative species and would hurt dealers, breeders and importers. But Nelson said his bill would be an important step toward protecting an ecological treasure. Dumped at the park and elsewhere by pet owners who wanted to get rid of them, the snakes—which can grow to 20 feet and more than 250 pounds—dine on wading birds, small mammals and anything else they can squeeze to death. http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-flbpythons0306sbmar06,0,7773882.story

April 21 is the birthday of the man who invented the concept of kindergarten: Friedrich Froebel, born in a village in Germany (1782). It was a prosperous village, located in a forest that was filled with plants that provided natural herbal remedies for various ailments, and the villagers earned their living from selling those plants in the form of salves, astringents, soaps, and dyes. Friedrich studied study math and botany, worked as a land surveyor, and then became a teacher. He was devoted to early childhood education, and he thought that activity and play were an essential part of early learning. He coined the term kindergarten in 1840. He was one of the first educators to see games as a tool for learning. He said, "Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul." The first kindergarten in the United States was founded in 1856 in Watertown, Wisconsin, by one of Froebel's students. The Writer’s Almanac