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Established in 1915, Monthly Labor Review is the principal journal of fact, analysis, and research from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, an agency within the U.S. Department of Labor. Each month, economists, statisticians, and experts from the Bureau join with private sector professionals and State and local government specialists to provide a wealth of research in a wide variety of fields—the labor force, the economy, employment, inflation, productivity, occupational injuries and illnesses, wages, prices, and many more.

This issue opens with a three-piece review of recent trends in the construction industry and its relationship to the broader economy. John P. Mullins documents the differences in the responses to the business cycle that have marked construction employment in recent recessions and recoveries. In the most recent cycle, the residential and nonresidential construction components have had very different employment trends.

Quality Magazine is a monthly business publication serving the quality assurance and process improvement needs of more than 64,000 manufacturing professionals. The magazine reports on the use of sound metrology methods, statistical analysis and process improvement techniques to significantly improve quality on the shop floor and in manufacturing planning.

Editorial coverage focuses on the practical application of and latest advancements in:

    * Metrology Methods & Equipment: Gages, calibration, optical inspection and measurement, surface finish, color measurement, coatings thickness, CMMs, materials testing, leak testing, machine tool maintenance/alignment.
    * Software & Analytical Tools: Data collection, SPC, SQC, design of experiments, flowcharting, process mapping, process simulation, FMEA, APQP, document control, gage management.
    * Quality Management: ISO/QS 9000 standards, certification and compliance.

Time Magazine is running an article called "China Takes on the World" in its latest issue, whose cover features a bright, golden star rising from the Great Wall and the headline, "Dawn of a New Dynasty."

Time is absolutely right: this will be China's century. But the media's indefatiguable enthusiasm for making these kinds of proclamations.

If you're a sinophile (which I wager you might be if you are reading this site), the article might not tell you anything you didn't already know, but it's a great primer for anyone wanting to understand China's role in the world, what it wants, what it fears, and how to work with the world's next superpower.

- By Jennifer Brea, World News Guide

M&C, Perfection in Planning!

M&C magazine is the definitive resource for meetings industry news featuring issues and trends, practical how-to features and destination guides for more than 70,000 meeting professionals who plan and book over one million meetings annually. Monthly, 13 issues per year (including the annual Gavel issue).

Since 1965, Meetings & Conventions magazine has been helping meeting and event planners in corporations, associations, incentive houses and independent planning companies excel at their jobs and effectively manage their careers. In our award-winning monthly print publication and here at M&C Online, we offer in-depth features, informative columns, destination insights, news analysis, original research and much more. And, our new, improved website offers additional tools: an articles archive, a powerful facility search engine, breaking news and other helpful features -- literally at your fingertips.

Your Health Now: Enhanced by Information and Insights from The Merck Manuals

Special Brain Issue:

In this issue of Your Health Now, you'll learn more about neurological disorders and illnesses that affect millions of Americans. Articles provide the latest information, expert advice and personal stories to enable you to better understand and help yourself or those around you cope with neurological disorders.

Just as Wall Street is an icon to the investment community, Fortune magazine is one to its readership, the difference being Fortune's diversified reach into the many facets of business: technology, companies, global economics, and, of course, your personal fortune. While many a narrow-focused business and investing magazine has come and gone, Fortune has grown and prospered, investing as much in content as ad space and staying in print since the 1930s. Columns include features on the marketplace, tech movers and shakers, career trends, U.S. politics, and even European business.

Readers also look forward to the annually updated Fortune lists, which include the "40 Richest Under 40," "Most Powerful Women," and the "Fortune 500," an exclusive collection of companies whose employees are undoubtedly Fortune readers as well. --Mace Bainwright

Cover Story: 100 Best Companies to Work For 2007. Google shot straight to the top in its first appearance on Fortune's list this year. Find out why, plus see detailed profiles for all the best places to work.

China Security is an international and interdisciplinary quarterly policy journal dedicated to bringing diverse perspectives to bear on vital traditional and nontraditional security issues that impact China’s strategic development and its relations with the United States and the region. The journal seeks to improve the understanding of China amongst American policy practitioners and the public by providing authoritative analysis on critical security issues.

China Security presents ideas from a wide range of intellectual traditions that cover both theoretical and policy-oriented research on political, social, economic
and military issues relevant to China. As an independent journal, China Security provides a peer-reviewed forum for research publication that enhances the communication of concepts and promotes a creative dialogue within China and across national boundaries.