Happy Thursday. If you haven’t seen these gems, you might want to take a look:

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has been criticized by some of its own members, and some members have quit, over the chambers old-fashioned views on climate change.  Chamber Director Thomas J. Donohue is unfazed, by a lot of things, apparently, in this New York Times profile.

Workplace e-mail issues? Companies are facing tougher tests in the nation’s courts when they try to monitor employees’ personal accounts. It seems there is a growing presumption of privacy, the Wall Street Journal reports.

PCBs were banned three decades ago, but they still persist in the food chain, and a new study at the University of Albany in New York suggests that PCBs could be linked to high blood pressure, says Science News.

All students would be required to speak two languages to graduate, Fairfax County, Va., schools decided in 2006. They began teaching foreign language to elementary students. But with the economic downturn, foreign language for little kids may now be considered a frill, according to The Washington Post.

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