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The Biblioracle: In memory of Warwick Deeping
Between 1920 and 1930, there were three writers with at least five books in the list of 10 best-selling books, according to Publishers Weekly. Two of them are Zane Grey and Sinclair Lewis. The other is Warwick Deeping. Warwick Deeping? --------------...
Tags: John Updike, Arts and Culture, Julie & Julia (movie), Awards and Prizes, Authors
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Drew Sharp: Year that kept a hot city cool (and why we need another like it in Detroit)
Detroit Free PressDETROIT The memories remain strong, cherished despite gradual evidence of middle-aged graying. The dichotomy of two Detroit summers 1967 and 1968 is still vivid to those who lived through it. As a 7-year-old growing up in northwest Detroit, I remember...Tags: Vietnam War (1955-1975), Baseball, National Football League, Prince Fielder, Justin Verlander
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Cannes 2013: Critics tell Jerry Lewis he's no expert on comedy
Given that he hasn’t had a good joke since Eisenhower was in the White House, Jerry Lewis probably shouldn’t have complained that he doesn’t find female comedians funny. At a Cannes Film Festival news conference to tout his new film,...Tags: Movies, The Hangover (movie), Hallmark Channel (tv network), Cannes Film Festival, Arts and Culture
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NASA engineers, high school students team up to build pilot-disorientation chair
A worst-case scenario for pilots in flight is not knowing which way is up. It can happen when visual cues are gone and acceleration knocks sensory systems out of whack, leaving pilots temporarily disoriented and more prone to crash. "Public enemy No....Tags: Teaching and Learning, Science, Technology, Engineering, Hungary
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Heinrich Rohrer dies at 79; a father of nanotechnology
The electron microscope revolutionized biology in the 1930s by providing magnifications thousands of times higher than that of light microscopes, allowing scientists to discern the inner workings of cells for the first time. But it was not nearly as...
Tags: IBM, Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, Applied Physics, Technology
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Pearl S. Buck to publish new novel ... 40 years after her death
A new novel by Pearl S. Buck will be published in October, more than 40 years after her death. Buck, best known for her novel "The Good Earth," won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1938. "The Eternal Wonder" was discovered in storage and will be...
Tags: Judges, China, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Google+, Crime, Law and Justice
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"Promiscuous minds" gather for Britain's Hay Festival
ReutersLONDON (Reuters) - Some of the biggest names in literature, science and politics will pitch up to a small British town over the next week for a clan gathering of the world's most "promiscuous minds". The 26th Hay Festival of literature, which begins on...Tags: Government, Music, Arts and Culture, Executive Branch, Festive Events
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Heinrich Rohrer dies: Nobel Prize-winning physicist was 79
Pop2itNobel Price-winning physicist Heinrich Rohrer has died. He's noted for inventing a microscope that makes seeing individual atoms moving possible.... -
Museums
Elmhurst Historical Museum 120 E. Park Ave., Elmhurst; 630-833-1457, elmhursthistory.org The regional history museum is located in the Glos Mansion, former home of Elmhurst's first village president, Henry L. Glos, and offers a look at the lifestyle...Tags: Hull House, Jane Addams, Music, Arts and Culture, Ottawa (Canada)
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Bill Clinton visits Colombia, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
This post has been corrected. See the note below for details.Former President Clinton visited Colombia last week, meeting with President Juan Manuel Santos while visiting Cartagena, where Bogota Mayor Gustavo Petro showed him around the city in an electric taxi. Then Clinton took time out to visit with Nobel...Tags: Colombia, Alzheimer's Disease, Bill Clinton, Google+, Health Treatments
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AstraZeneca closes in on site for new home in Cambridge
ReutersLONDON (Reuters) - AstraZeneca is closing in on a site for its new $500 million home in Cambridge, with a biomedical park just south of the English city the most likely site, property industry sources said. Moving research and global headquarters to...Tags: Cheshire, Medical Research, Science, MedImmune Inc., England
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OPINION: Saving President Obama's legacy
The Fayetteville Observer, N.C.In January 2009, I took the first major road trip with the woman who became my wife -- a drive to Washington, D.C., to watch Barack Hussein Obama take the oath as the 44th American president. We wanted to be part of history. By sheer coincidence,...Tags: Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Tea Party Movement, U.S. Senate, U.S. Congress
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