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Time Warner, founded in 1972 as Warner Communications, is one of the leading global media and entertainment company with operations in interactive services, television networks, cable systems, filmed entertainment and publishing. Its subsidiaries include AOL, HBO, Time Warner Cable, New Line Cinema, Cable News Network, Turner Broadcasting System, Time, and Warner Bros. Entertainment. AOL provides interactive services, Web brands, Internet technologies, and e-commerce services throughout the United States and Europe. It offers online subscription service, including dial-up telephone Internet access, digital services, wireless, and voice-over applications. The company s cable division offers video, data, and digital phone services including digital video, video-on-demand, and video recorders. Warner Bros. Entertainment produces and distributes theatrical motion pictures, television shows, animation and television programming, and home video products. Time Warner Cable offers domestic and international cable networks and a broadcast television network. The company publishes various daily, weekly and sports magazines, including TIME, People, Sports Illustrated, and D C comics. Time Warner is headquartered in New York City.

Scientific American is the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States. For more than 155 years, Scientific American magazine, one of the world's most enduring and revered magazines, has chronicled major innovations and scientific discoveries using expert accounts and assorted journalistic features. More than 120 Nobel laureates have written for Scientific American, most of whom wrote about their prize-winning works years before being recognized by the Nobel Committee. In addition to the likes of Albert Einstein, Francis Crick, Jonas Salk and Linus Pauling, Scientific American continues to attract esteemed authors from many fields: former Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland of Norway, former United Nations Secretary-General Trygve Lie, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, former Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, former Secretary of Defense Les Aspin, John Kenneth Galbraith, Lester Thurow, Mitchell Kapor and Nicholas Negroponte. Scientific American is a truly global enterprise. The magazine publishes 15 foreign language editions and has a total of more than 1,000,000 copies in circulation worldwide. In 1986 Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck, a German-based publishing group, bought Scientific American, Inc.

Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishing Group is a confederation of three unique college publishing houses: Bedford/St. Martin s, W.H.Freeman & Company and Worth Publishers. Each of these companies pursues its own publishing program independent of the others. Bedford/St. Martin's is a publisher that specializes in the humanities, such as philosophy, religion, music, history, composition, literature, linguistics, English and business and technical writing. W.H.Freeman & Company publishes in the sciences, such as astronomy, biochemistry, biology, chemistry, geography, geology, mathematics, physics and statistics. Worth Publishers publishes for career colleges, trade and vocational schools, business colleges, governmental and military schools, corporate and professional training institutions and online and distance universities. Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishing Group is located in New York City.