The Brief: Google, More Google, Read Up

The Brief gives a double shout-out to Google today. Can't help but sing the praises of the Web's top searcher. Round it out with a little academic support — in the form of a tuition angel and a few hot celebrities. Read up. The Brief is coming at ya.

• Star-driven school kids get their incentive to feed a forest, green their schools.
• Google one-ups itself, yet again. Search away.
• And in other Google news ... take to the sky.
• Reading rates on the rise.
• Human kindness — and a bunch of bucks — keep student's school-dreams alive.