The Freelance Sweepstakes / Making It as a Freelance Writer [panel discussion announcement]

Panelists: Kathy Morikawa; Angela Jeffs; Mark Schilling; Mark Schreiber; Mike Boxall, editor, PHP Intersect; Gregory Start, editor, Tokyo Journal

Directory Updating [reminder, e-mail addresses]

Cash and Carry [tips for paying SWET dues]

Planning Ahead Financially / "The Seven Ps of Financial Planning" (NR) [presentation report]

Speaker: Tim Cornwall, Banner Overseas Financial Services

Topics: Retirement Planning Timetable [goals for each age bracket]; Retirement Planning Work Sheet [sample]

Books International (SS) [report: Tokyo Book Fair]

100 Books from Japanese (SS) [meeting report: group plans publication]

Translating with Style (2) (JW) [tips on consistency, correctness]

Japanese-to-English pointers; Conclusion

Redacting with Style (MM) [polishing the prose style of text in Translating with Style (2)]

Tricks of the Trade [professional tips from SWET members]

A Great Place for Macintosh Software &c (BD)

Watch Your (Letter) Head!

Notes from Interlingual Hell / The Translation of Essays and Journalistic Prose (LER) [approaches and steps]

Subheadings: An inviting title; The lead paragraph; Restructuring the test; Mixing metaphors; Checking quotations

Hobson's Choice of Printers (BD) [hardware review]

Printer: Oki Microline 801PS

Subheadings: Unadvertised facts; Hidden facts

How Much Is Enough? [views on workload amount and control]

True to Type (BD) [Adobe Type Manager; expanding type library; low and high resolution]