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Google Releases Picasa for Macintosh Michael Calore reports on Wired that After an Agonizing Wait, Picasa for Mac Finally Arrives. Picasa is a free desktop application for editing, organizing and sharing digital photos from Google Labs. It's long been available for Windows and Linux users, but a beta for Mac (Intel CPU only) was released Monday to coincide with the 2009 Macworld Expo. Strange Teacher Dismissal in California Richard C. Paddock has an interesting article in the Los Angeles Times about a teacher who was dismissed for allegedly plagiarizing in a college class. In Tioga High students push to recall school board, Paddock tells about Tioga students mounting a recall effort to remove all five board members of the Big Oak Flat-Groveland Unified School District who dismissed the teacher. Interestingly, the teacher has been cleared of any plagiarism allegations, but the school board has refused to reinstate him. More D.C. Schools Reform Bill Turque writes in Rhee Plans Shake-Up of Teaching Staff, Training in the Washington Post:
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