We hope you'll enjoy this week's pick of magazine articles from the best that the free web has to offer. Time Europe profiles an optimistic, promising generation of European serial entrepreneurs and their visions of the future. As PC World reports, Internet merchants soon may be forced to start charging all customers a standard sales tax. Industry Standard reports on a new self-checkout system being tested in grocery stores.
Today reviews a number of compelling new sports-themed books.
A Science News article reports on new sightings of a rare and prehistoric fish, the coelacanth. Time Europe reports on an ambitious project to catalog and provide over the web a complete multimedia repository of all plant and animal species above microbial level. In an Education Week article, an economist and high school principal contends that educational achievement and national economic prosperity are not so closely linked as many believe. Even with all the technological advances being touted, Red Herring reports that progress is slow and the future of telematics equipment in cars is quite uncertain. Men's Fitness has a feature on how to combat springtime allergies.