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CONTACT: Ken Frazier, (608) 262-2600, kfrazier@library.wisc.edu MADISON - A new proposal for a "digital commons" being developed by the University of Wisconsin System Libraries would give students and faculty across the UW System a more expansive set of keys to the "gated Web," linking them to online commercial databases that are indispensable for serious scholarship and research. The proposal, discussed at...

MILWAUKEE, Sep 10, 2008 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX News Network) -- Joy Global Inc. (Nasdaq:JOYG), a worldwide leader in high-productivity mining solutions, today announced that during its regularly scheduled quarterly meeting on September, 9, 2008, the Company's Board of Directors authorized an increase and extension of its share repurchase program. The Board's action increases the authorization from $1 billion to...

MADISON -- Kikkoman Corp. Chairman Yuzaburo Mogi figures he has been to Wisconsin at least 200 times in the past 35 years. So he was on familiar ground Tuesday when he dedicated his company's new research-and-development lab at the University Research Park on Madison's west side. Mogi said he has high hopes that Kikkoman scientists and UW-Madison researchers can...

In the decade since Dr. James Thomson’s isolation and culture of human embryonic stem cells, the field has evolved from the realm of pure science into economic development and consumer advocacy. Nowhere will that be more evident than at the 2008 World Stem Cell Summit, set for Sept. 22 and 23 at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, where some...

From WisBusiness.com ... -- The vast majority of businesses in the city of Milwaukee are opposed to a binding Nov. 4 referendum that will require them to provide a minimum amount of paid sick leave, according to a new survey by QPS Companies Inc., a Brookfield-based staffing and recruiting firm. See more from Milwaukee's Small Business Times: http://www.biztimes.com/daily/2008/9/10/#milwaukee-businesses-oppose-proposed-sick-leave-mandate -- An...