Brian Gongol
![Business and Finance](http://gongol.com/assets/icons/2005icons/biz.png)
It's not a small purchase -- $700 million. And it's for a company that provides tracking of airfares, so the government has ordered them to keep supplying data to other sites, like Orbitz and Kayak. Google has to make a whole lot of right decisions to have any hope of being as successful in its second decade as it was in its first.
![The American Way](http://gongol.com/assets/icons/2005icons/$.png)
People in a number of American cities are going to try a small-scale program to encourage kids to think about entrepreneurship
![Socialism Doesn't Work](http://gongol.com/assets/icons/2005icons/commies.png)
It's too bad that the allure of professional sports convinces governments and voters to spend tons of money to buy the allegiances of sports-team owners
![Health](http://gongol.com/assets/icons/2005icons/health.png)
A mother shows more intelligence about her son's post-concussion care than any coaches seemed to want to. High school sports just aren't that important.