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In fashion, what's old is often new again.

If you doubt it, just look at the styles coming out this spring: 1950s-style dresses for women and streamlined suits for men just like the characters in "Mad Men."

You may also want to heed another fashion from that era: in-person networking.

You're not likely to see anyone on "Mad Men" use online social networking to forge a relationship, although they do put the "social" in networking with their lunch meetings and after-hour soirees. If you watch those interactions, you'll see a good example of how the art of building relationships has been lost through too much reliance on technical gadgets, one expert says.

Vicky Oliver, author of numerous books on career development such as "301 Smart Answers to Tough Interview Questions," says it's time that people learned some of the best techniques for networking don't come from friending someone on Facebook or tweeting tidbits to strangers. While she believes those social networks are useful, we all should learn to embrace "retro" techniques.

Of course, not everyone will like the idea of coming out from behind their computers and entering a roomful of strangers to network or getting on the phone to ask someone for help, she says.

"Everybody is shy," she says. "But it gets better with practice. Even striking up a 2-minute conversation with someone while waiting somewhere is a good chance to practice your skills."

So you have to put away your smartphone or drop the iPad and learn to take every opportunity to interact with someone face-to-face. Here are some of Oliver's suggestions for honing your networking skills:

Travel the friendly skies. Join an airline club so you have time to mingle with others in an airport lounge.

Use layover times in airports to schedule meetings with someone in that city. Use an online golf club to book a game with other business travelers once you reach your destination.

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Check, but not checkmate, was the verdict on Chelsea throwing a bucket of cold London rainwater on Barcelona's bonfire on Wednesday night. There was begrudging praise for such a monumental defensive performance but still the belief that, as Diaro Sport put it, the "Nou Camp will have the last word".

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To what extent Barcelona fans shared the optimism of the newspapers they were reading after their first defeat in 15 games was a different matter. In most post-match polls on which team now had the tougher task of turning round their first-leg defeat Real Madrid (beaten 2-1 in Munich on Tuesday) or Barcelona supporters leaned towards giving Jose Mourinho's side the best shot at a Champions League comeback.

Back in 2009, many supporters believed it was their destiny to lift the trophy, especially when Andres Iniesta scored in the last minute at Stamford Bridge to knock out Chelsea in the semi-final. Now those fans believe their team having failed to score with 24 shots in 90 minutes are destined to fail.

The Catalan sports press did its best to argue to the contrary, suggesting that Chelsea will not be able to hold out against Lionel Messi and company for 180 minutes. Especially with the second 90 minutes being at the Nou Camp where the pitch is officially two metres wider and one metre longer, but always feels bigger to visiting sides who are dragged all over the place.

The post-match statistics were astonishing but just as Pep Guardiola had given them short shrift after the game, so they were overwhelmed by the images that dominated the inquest into Barcelona's defeat. One picture of Messi with the ball at his feet but with four Chelsea players for company appeared in almost every daily paper.

Another had him as the only Bara player in frame with eight blue shirts around him it was Messi surrounded, alone and powerless to combat a defence that with Matrix-style agility had time and again flung itself into the path of Barcelona shots.

While picking through the bones of Barcelona's failure to score, there was plenty of credit for Chelsea's resilience, too. Didier Drogba might have appeared on the cartoon on the back page of Diario Sport knee-deep in four-leaf clover but there was an acceptance that there was nothing lucky about the performances of John Terry, Gary Cahill and Ashley Cole.

The England left-back "closed-down his wing", pointed out Marca, "Alexis, Alves, Pedro and Cuenca all tried and failed to get past him". Terry's performance was described as a "recital" in the Catalan daily La Vanguardia.

"Watching him play is like opening an encyclopedia on central defending. Just as Messi always runs forward," it said, "Terry always runs back believing that he will be able to intervene. And with Cahill alongside him, the finest moments of his partnership with Carvalho came to mind."

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With sales expected to triple over the next three years, the publishers and Apple, Inc., whose iPad readers are a major competitor in the ebook market (along with the Barnes & Noble Nook and Amazons various Kindle models), were feeling huge market pressures.

The competition was primarily coming from Amazon, which had offered electronic versions of books for an initial price of $9.99, far below the list price of new hardcovers, now approaching $30 or more. Amazons customer base, which appreciated the lower cost of versions that, after all, did not have to be printed on paper or sold via physical stores, snapped up the electronic books by the millions.

So, the Justice Department alleges, publishers like Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins and Penguin, along with others, conspired with Apple to seize control of the ebook market from Amazon and drive up prices on downloadable versions.

Some of the publishers have settled with Justice without admitting liability, while Apple and others are fighting the conspiracy charges.

The DOJ says the companies feared that Amazons low prices would cause consumers to demand reductions on the cost of all books, and eventually lead Amazon to sell content directly to readers, bypassing traditional publishers and aiding Kindle sales.

The publishers and Apple argue that Amazons market dominance was leading to it becoming a monopoly, driving competitors out of business by selling below cost.

But the DOJ says retailers were being denied the right to set their own prices by the conspiracy. That seems right: Consumers, not cartels, deserve to benefit from lower-cost methods.

Its not only the bottom line, its the last word.

The Times Argus of Barre, Montpelier (Vt.), April 20, 2012

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