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Judge Rejects Google Book Deal Over Monopoly ConcernsBy Matt Peckham, Technologizer Mar 23, 2011 10:29 am It looks like Google's attempt to bury the hatchet with authors and publishers in its bid to digitize a world's worth of books may be in jeopardy after a New York federal judge on Tuesday rejected a $125 million settlement reached in October 2008. Google promotes that settlement on its Google Books page as "with a broad class of authors and publishers to make the world's books even more accessible online," but Judge Denny Chin was having none of it. Chin said the deal...

I need help with saving a scanned document from an email to a Word document.

PARIS (AFP) – Bikes used at the Tour de France will be scanned to make sure they do not contain illegal motors, the International Cycling Union (UCI) announced on Friday. The move comes following rumours that Fabian Cancellara used 'mechanical doping' during his victories in the Tour of Flanders and the Paris-Roubaix, which the Swiss Olympic time-trial champion strongly denied. "The members of the management committee discussed issues concerning equipment used in road competitions and decided that it was necessary to bolster measures that have already been put in place (in particular the visual inspection of bicycles, a procedure that...

Here is my description of the information at the web site above: An anonymous person has, through a FOIA request, obtained copies of the FBI photographs of three of the anthrax letters and envelopes. High-quality scans are posted on the web site in TIFF format. These are much higher quality than the images on the FBI web site, and the photos include rulers next to the letters, so the sizes can be measured. The images are much too big to be posted here. Go to the web site and download them if you are interested. (Links to the TIFF images...