Biz Break: Googles online ad empire grows; EA cutting 1,500 jobs (San Jose Mercury News)
Google is acquiring mobile ad startup AdMob. Electronic Arts is cutting 1,500 jobs and buying social networking game maker Playfish. Silicon Valley tech stocks surge higher along with the Dow and Nasdaq.

Benner to remain as Towamencin <b>engineer</b> on interim basis
Russ Benner heard the rumors in the preceding months that CMX might dissolve.

Sun Messenger Person of the Week: Diane Centeno-Gomez
Not many people have what it takes to be a research biomedical engineer, but thats the title Diana Centeno-Gomez carries at her job working locally for NASA. Gomez, of South Euclid, has worked 26 years for NASA, the past five under her current title.

Networking, pluck bring job luck (Chicago Tribune)
Readers share their uplifting success stories of finding work in the gloomy job market.

Why We Risk Oil Spills to Get Cheap Energy
Our addiction to cheap energy has a way of clouding memories of even the most vivid disasters.