Any reading above zero indicates that most respondents expect the economy to improve.

ECONOMIST: Overview

Any reading below zero indicates contraction in the region's manufacturing sector.

FORBES

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FORBES: 'Zero Dark Thirty' Review: A Film To Define A Decade

But with a July reading of 87, 000 new jobs and a zero return in August you can plainly see just how far employers are from even maintaining an unchanged unemployment rate.

FORBES: Bond Yields Plunge After Ugly Jobs Report

Until recently the only equipment for spotting a suitcase bomb was an unwieldy machine the size of a refrigerator, using liquid nitrogen to cool crystal detectors down to 300 degrees below zero and taking hours to produce a reading.

FORBES: Stopping Porta-Nukes

Until recently the only equipment for spotting a suitcase bomb was an unwieldy machine the size of a refrigerator that used liquid nitrogen to cool crystal detectors down to 184 degrees Celsius below zero and took hours to produce a reading.

FORBES: Stopping porta-nukes

Repairs to a Reading town centre road have been further delayed due to sub-zero temperatures and the discovery of Medieval remains.

BBC: Reading Friar Street cracked road surface

When pressed for details about how this "document DRM" actually works, the PR rep we spoke with had zero information -- we asked whether a Mac version of the BBeB-reading software would be released but no word on that either.

ENGADGET: Sony Reader details and pics