Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Illustrations removed from valuable books at KU library

Illustrations removed from valuable books at KU library
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
By CHAD DAY Someone has been cutting up rare books at the University of Kansas' Watson Library and stealing the valuable parts, including intricate ...
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Google Confirms DOJ Request On Book Settlement
Wall Street Journal - USA
The plaintiffs alleged that Google's book search project violated copyrights. Google agreed to pay $125 million to settle the claims and establish a ...
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Book Buzz: What's new on the list and in publishing
USA Today - USA
By Deirdre Donahue, Bob Minzesheimer and Taylor McGraw, USA TODAY Vampire fighter Anita Blake is back in the hunt; a multimedia mystery series for kids is ...
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A-Rod book doesn't have much juice on the shelf
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
Selena Roberts' much-hyped book "A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez" had an announced first printing of 150000 copies but has sold just 16000, ...
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Crude oil loses some steam after Fed Beige Book
MarketWatch - USA
The central bank's collection of anecdotes known as the Beige Book also said credit conditions remained tight while wages and prices were flat or falling.
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'The Physick Book' delivers a spooky historical story
USA Today - USA
By Katherine Howe By Carol Memmott, USA TODAY Katherine Howe's The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane is a witch story that will leave you spellbound. ...
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Michigan man runs Web site on museum gunman's book
Chicago Tribune - United States
The Web site www.holywesternempire.org promotes von Brunn's book "Kill the Best Gentiles!" It's registered to 45-year-old Steve Reimink of Ottawa County's ...
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Author Dave Eggers' new book due next month
Entertainment Weekly - USA
Dave Eggers, author of the bestselling memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and the novel What Is the What, has written a nonfiction book about ...
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Beige Book Reports Continuing Economic Sluggishness
Washington Post - United States
The beige book revealed an economy that, while improving in some areas, was still beset on many fronts. Manufacturing activity declined or remained at a low ...
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Walnut Creek chooses best-seller for citywide book club
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
By Elisabeth Nardi Now in its fourth year, the One City, One Book: Walnut Creek Reads citywide book club has announced this year's selection — "The Guernsey ...
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Despite stimulus, schools feel budget pain

Despite stimulus, schools feel budget pain
Stateline.org - Washington,DC,USA
This year, 26 states made midyear cuts to elementary and secondary education and 31 made cuts to higher education, according to a recent report by the ...
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Dodd "Shopping Around" For Health Care Ideas While Reformers Gets ...
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
Dodd is leading the push through the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee because the chairman, Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass. ...
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Arizona gets $681 million in stimulus funding for education
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
The US Department of Education has approved $681 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding for Arizona schools, helping to keep hundreds of ...
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Leaders push roads, education at conference
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
... plans for Florida's future during the Northeast Region Roadmap Forum Wednesday, including new transportation routes and higher standards of education. ...
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Colorado Education Board Meeting Agenda for Wednesday, June 10
Cherry Creek News - Denver,CO,USA
The meeting will be held in the first-floor board room at the Colorado Department of Education, 201 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. The meeting will combine work ...
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Colorado gets $509M for education from part of stimulus plan
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
The money will be used to improve and monitor public education, and Colorado will collect and publish information on teacher quality, student improvements, ...
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Push is on for a 'common' education standard for US schoolchildren
Christian Science Monitor - USA
The state-by-state system leaves many students 'inadequately prepared,' Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Wednesday at a Monitor breakfast. ...
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PA Secretary of Education Visits DuBois High School
Gant Daily - Clearfield,PA,USA
DUBOIS - Pennsylvania Secretary of Education Gerald Zahorchak stopped by the DuBois Area High School as part of his bus tour across Pennsylvania this week. ...
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Oklahoma Lottery education dollars slipping
Forbes - NY,USA
By TIM TALLEY , 06.10.09, 11:40 AM EDT Just four years after it sold its first lottery ticket, the Oklahoma Lottery's contribution to public education is on ...
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American Education: How to Wreck a Dream
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
There is nothing more important to us than the education of our children. It's education that pushes each generation beyond the last generation; ...
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Thursday, June 4, 2009

Toni Morrison speaks up for free speech

The Associated Press
Toni Morrison speaks up for free speech
The Associated Press
Blume, 61, first became aware of the book around age 9, when her mother warned not to look at the book, especially a certain page. ...
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Providence Journal
Throwing the book at summer: RI school districts refresh reading lists
Providence Journal - Providence,RI,USA
The required book is 8 Plus 1 by Robert Cormier, a collection of short stories. There are other suggested books on the list. In the struggle to make this ...
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Actress-author Julianne Moore to read her children's book in ...
Chicago Tribune - United States
By Christopher Borrelli | Tribune reporter What kind of kid attends a book reading by Julianne Moore? A 7-year-old with a Robert Altman fetish? ...
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Man hits tree, gets book thrown at him
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
A man wanted on charges of vehicular assault, attempting to elude, cocaine possession, reckless endangerment and third-degree theft was arrested Tuesday ...
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New York Times
Books of The Times
New York Times - United States
By Michael Lewis While his wife figures only tangentially in the book, is given scant credit for her efforts and is referred to as "incubator of the source ...
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Book buzz: What's new on the list and in publishing
USA Today - USA
12 on USA today's Best-Selling Books list. This September, the story becomes a children's picture book, Dewey: There's a Cat in the Library! ...
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Voice of America
US Lawmakers Urge Obama to Press Saudis on School Book Hate Content
Voice of America - USA
Congress has complained for years about hate-promoting language in textbooks used in Saudi Arabia's schools, and about books used in other countries in the ...
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Blurb intros Blurb booksmart 2.0 book making software
InfoWorld - San Francisco,CA,USA
By Nick Spence | Macworld.co.uk Blurb, a creative publishing and marketing platform for user-created books, has introduced a significant software upgrade to ...
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Get Half Off At Library Used Book Sale
kypost.com - Covington,KY,USA
This week the Main Library on Vine Street in Downtown Cincinnati is holding a used book sale. They announced that everything will be half price on Thursday, ...
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Howard Dean Is New Chairman of Progressive Book Club
U.S. News & World Report - Washington,DC,USA
Dean has been named the new chairman of the board of the Progressive Book Club, which models itself after the Conservative Book Club. ...
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Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Stargazing: Jay Leno's finale, an Octomom book?

Stargazing: Jay Leno's finale, an Octomom book?
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
Not only has "Octomom" Nadya Suleman signed a deal to star in a reality TV series, there's also talk of a book deal. 3Ball Productions, the production ...
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Books of The Times Some Like It Hot, Some Like It Literary: A ...
New York Times - United States
The book moves inexorably toward Monroe's appearance; her magnetism sucks everything rapidly toward it. Miller's long life (1915-2005) can be cleaved neatly ...
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J.D. Salinger's lawyers seek to keep so-called sequel off shelves
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Lawyers representing JD Salinger filed suit in federal court in New York on Monday seeking to force a recall of the book "60 Years Later: Coming Through the ...
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Google drops the other shoe, plans to sell online books
ZDNet - USA
Google announced it would enter the e-book market by letting publishers sell online-access only to their books via the great search engine, ...
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Villaraigosa's new girlfriend needs to read the book on him
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
According to Channel 4, Parker was overheard looking at a book about Kenya and said to Villaraigosa, 'We should buy it for our trip.' " All I can say is, ...
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San Francisco Chronicle
Holden on Hold
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
Courthouse News Service reports today that JD Salinger is suing an anonymous writer, pseudonym JD California, over a book entitled 60 Years Later: Coming ...
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New York Times
Salinger Sues to Stop 'Catcher in the Rye' Sequel
New York Times - United States
On Monday, Mr. Salinger, the reclusive author, filed suit against the writer and the publisher of a planned book that claims to be a sequel to "The Catcher ...
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The Associated Press
China book on Sichuan quake counters gov't stance
The Associated Press
That politically sensitive conclusion is one of the most startling in a book by architects and engineers dispatched by the government to the ravaged quake ...
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Google Sets Plans to Sell E-Books
Wall Street Journal - USA
By SCOTT MORRISON Google Inc. said it plans to launch a program that will let publishers sell digital versions of their books directly to consumers, ...
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Third Screen: JD Salinger Sues
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
And why is this less acceptable than the recent unauthorized tell-all book on Salinger by Joyce Maynard in which she played no direct role in the author's ...
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Monday, June 1, 2009

Education spending would rise

Education spending would rise
Evansville Courier & Press - Evansville,IN,USA
By allowing for public education funding increases and the use of some of the state's surplus, Daniels made key concessions that could help his proposal ...
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Education, parenting can lift a child up
South Coast Today - New Bedford,MA,USA
But the only way to propel someone out of poverty and public housing is through proper education! Education! Education! And without a doubt, ...
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California lawmakers hear pleas not to further slash higher education
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
The very future of California is at stake, scores warn a joint Assembly and Senate budget committee, even as a possible $8.1 billion in higher education ...
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Education Opens Doors
New York Times - United States
A significant part of that compelling tale is the great value the Sotomayor family placed on higher education. Judge Sotomayor's mother, Celina, ...
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A case for proper sex education
Jamaica Observer - Kingston,Jamaica
We believe that sex education should start no later than grade two of the primary level. Sex should be treated as any other topic that would be learnt in a ...
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College officials decry proposed education budget cuts
Sacramento Bee - CA, USA
Arnold Schwarzenegger's education budget proposals in a packed budget conference committee hearing Monday afternoon. Their bottom line: The proposed cuts to ...
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Q-Notes - Carolinas LGBT news source
Gay NC native appointed to Education dept.
Q-Notes - Carolinas LGBT news source - Charlotte,NC,USA
by Matt Comer | June 1st, 2009 The founder and former executive director of the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network (GLSEN) has been appointed to a ...
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News14.com
Education groups unite to fight budget cuts
News14.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
RALEIGH – With just one month until a new state spending plan is supposed to be completed, education officials say lawmakers need to reconsider proposed ...
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Senate Health Committee Releases Outline of Health Care Reform ...
Healthcare Association of New York State - Rensselaer,NY,USA
The US Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee released an outline of its health care reform priorities. ...
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Come check out The Education Front in its new location
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA
Our new blog devoted to education issues is up and running, too. Come on over to The Education Front for a review of the Legislature's just-finished school ...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Join our F&R Book Club: Reviews by -- and for -- readers like you

Join our F&R Book Club: Reviews by -- and for -- readers like you
USA Today - USA
Are you looking for a community of folks eager to talk about books they've just read that inspire, challenge or enlarge their spiritual or ethical views? ...
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Donations sought for summer book sale
Seacoastonline.com - Portsmouth,NH,USA
YORK — The popular Annual Book Sale of the York Public Library will be held July 23-25. Book donations in good, saleable condition are being accepted at the ...
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Next 'Book in Common' tabbed
Contra Costa Times - Walnut Creek,CA,USA
By HEATHER HACKING - Staff Writer CHICO -- People are still talking about "Three Cups of Tea," the book chosen for the community Book in Common and read ...
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Western Slope produce inspires food writer's book
Grand Junction Sentinel - Grand Junction,CO,USA
The food on the Western Slope inspired her new book, "Well-Preserved: Recipes and Techniques for Putting Up Small Batches of Seasonal Foods," released May ...
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Greenspan Flunks Test, Bush Falls Into $15 Trillion Pit: Books
Bloomberg - USA
Another book on the financial crisis, you ask? Hasn't the subject been bludgeoned to death? Surprisingly, no. Ritholtz makes a valuable new contribution to ...
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Reading contest spurs students to hit the books
The Daily Dispatch - Henderson,NC,USA
The focus of the contest was to encourage students to read books that they like. Tony Jefferson of Toyota of Henderson coordinated the contest with Dr. ...
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Boston Globe
Her books are a nice fit among the couture
Boston Globe - United States
''The Ex-Mrs. Hedgefund'' author Jill Kargman at last night's book party at Juicy Couture. (Jim Davis/Globe Staff) New York chick-lit writer Jill Kargman ...
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Sandy Post
Book it – register for Summer Reading Program at Sandy Library
Sandy Post - Gresham,OR,USA
So two years ago, they read books from the National Parks Mystery Books series, and last year they could read books written by two different authors. ...
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Eucalyptus for iphone
Macworld - San Francisco,CA,USA
What sets the app apart from most of its competition is how it takes the cold, forbidding, and ugly type so typical of public-domain e-books and makes it ...
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Access Hollywood
Ricki Lake Gets Personal In New Book About Child Birth
Access Hollywood - USA
Ricki Lake has been very candid about being sexually abused as a child and in her new book, "Your Best Birth," she explains how giving birth can bring back ...
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Manga Review: Detroit Metal City Volume One by Kimihori Wakasugi ...
Viz could just as easily put a variation of this sticker warning on the back cover of the book since much of its dialog (especially that delivered by Death Records' leather-wearing president) can be gleefully obscene. ...
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chofmann's weblog: FLOSS Manuals: Changing the Publishing World ...
It's too bad that all of these things need to come together to make interesting books happen more often. Anyone that ever been involved in the publishing of a book will also tell you that fame and fortune from books are pipe dreams, ...
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Poet Derek Walcott is the real thing, says Jonathan Jones | Art ...
By Jonathan Jones
Free P&P at the Guardian bookshop. Brooklyn; £17.99 with free UK delivery. Winter Vault; £16.99 with free UK delivery. Browse more culture and arts books · Buy books from the Guardian Bookshop ...
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Challenge for Europe » Blog Archive » Setting a fixed European ...
By Challenge for Europe
We ask for a fixed public price for books, which would regulate the price of books in the whole French territory. According to some experiences abroad, there is proof that liberalisation of this market has negative outcomes. ...
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New images featuring Denzel Washington in post-apocalyptic Book of ...
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New images featuring Denzel Washington in post-apocalyptic Book of Eli, by SCI FI Wire Staff, for SCI FI Wire, Part of the SCI FI Online Network.
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Apple Relents, Adds 'Pornographic' E-Book Reader to App Store

Wired News
Apple Relents, Adds 'Pornographic' E-Book Reader to App Store
Wired News - USA
By Charlie Sorrel Apple has finally approved the gorgeous-looking e-book reader, Eucalyptus, for the iTunes App Store. The application was previously banned ...
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Amazon's next revolution
CNNMoney.com - USA
CEO Jeff Bezos used the web to shake up book retailing. Now he's using the Internet to sell electronic books on his Kindle e-reader. ...
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How Do Nannies Manage? Gingerly
New York Times - United States
Other books have thoughtfully tackled the subject of nanny-parent relationships — Lucy Kaylin's "The Perfect Stranger," for one — but Ms. Blaine complicates ...
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Open the books on tax records
Detroit Free Press - United States
BY ROCHELLE RILEY • FREE PRESS COLUMNIST • May 26, 2009 The Free Press reported Sunday that the city's tax department cannot tell the difference between a ...
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Prescott-area libraries recycle books in many ways
Prescott Daily Courier - Prescott,AZ,USA
Sharon Seymour, Prescott Public Library's lead librarian in Adult Services, said when they take out-of-date, worn or damaged books off the shelves, ...
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guardian.co.uk
Davis Love III books 23rd straight Open appearance
guardian.co.uk - UK
The veteran American Davis Love III was one of eight players to secure places in this year's Open yesterday. The tournament, at Turnberry from 16-19 July, ...
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Swede Hanson books US Open ticket with hole in one
Reuters - USA
LONDON (Reuters) - Sweden's Peter Hanson qualified for next month's US Open in dramatic style with a playoff hole-in-one on Monday. ...
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The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy ...
Foreign correspondent Neil MacFarquhar serves up a memoir that is part-journalistic account, part-foreign-policy primer on the Middle East.
Books - http://features.csmonitor.com/books/
Who now for the Oxford poetry job? | Books | guardian.co.uk
By Sarah Crown
Sarah Crown: Ruth Padel has stepped down - so let's play fantasy-poetry-professor and pick our own candidate.
Books: Books blog | guardian.co.uk - http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog
Smashwords Launches Flexible Ebook Affiliate Program
By Jason Kincaid
The Smashwords affiliate program is offering commissions of 11% of the net selling price (the sale price less any PayPal fees) for all of its online books (authors can optionally opt out if they'd like). And the store is giving authors ...
TechCrunch - http://www.techcrunch.com/
Book Review: Black Tooth Grin: The High Life, Good Times, and ...
Crain neither dwells too heavily on the details of that tragic night, nor does this book really shed any new light on them. Still, his recounting of that event -- which some metal fans still call the "9/11 of heavy metal" -- as ...
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Dispatch Dialogues: HIV/AIDS - Beyond Denialism with The Virus ...
By Emily
In their new book, The Virus, Vitamins & Vegetables, editors Kerry Cullinan and Anso Thom say that Thabo Mbeki's legacy is a South Africa filled with AIDS orphans, child-headed households, grandparents forced to parent their dead ...
Jacana - http://jacana.book.co.za/blog/
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Thursday, May 21, 2009

Report Prompts Call for Rules on Restraining Students

Report Prompts Call for Rules on Restraining Students
Washington Post - United States
By Maria Glod and Michael Birnbaum Citing "disturbing" reports of schoolchildren being harmed when teachers physically restrained them, US Education ...
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Higher education officials campaign for community college graduates
News-Journal.com - Longview,TX,USA
By JIMMY ISAAC Higher education officials are pushing to get more community college graduates into the state's four-year universities. ...
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Secretary Of Education To Monitor How Public Schools Use Restraint
KWTX - Waco,TX,USA
The GAO has referred the case to the Virginia Department of Education and the American Association of School Administrators said the school district where ...
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C&G Newspapers
Teachers, staff hold rally over budget decisions
C&G Newspapers - Detroit,MI,USA
Sidney Kardon, a school social worker and president of the 330-member Royal Oak Education Association, said they were rallying to get the district to use ...
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Phoenix families put nest egg before education savings
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
Fifty-five percent of the poll's respondents said saving for their own retirement is more important than saving for their children's college education, ...
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Hamptons.com
School Budgets Pass From Montauk To Westhampton
Hamptons.com - Southampton,NY,USA
Current Board of Education member Mary Lownes, who ran unopposed, will be keeping her seat on the board next year. In the Bridgehampton School District, ...
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Duncan Warns Against Improper Restraint of Students
Washington Post - United States
By Maria Glod and Michael Birnbaum Education Secretary Arne Duncan today said that he has "grave concern" about improper use of restraints on schoolchildren ...
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Longs donate $1M to UT College of Education
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
Austin philanthropists Teresa and Joe Long have given $1 million to The University of Texas at Austin's College of Education that will be used to endow a ...
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State wins $635M in education stimulus grants
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
The money will go to save teaching jobs and shore up budgets in both K-12 and higher education, and is contingent on certain reforms being enacted, ...
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Education Secretary to States: I'm Watching You
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) - USA
States that use their education-stabilization dollars for noneducational purposes will get no more economic-recovery money, Arne Duncan told Congress today. ...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Long's efforts crucial to US Open field

Long's efforts crucial to US Open field
ESPN - USA
The longtime caddie for PGA/Champions Tour stalwart Fred Funk estimates he has prepared yardage books for half of all PGA Tour venues this season and nearly ...
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Hampton books 'Rebecca'
Variety - Los Angeles,CA,USA
By GORDON COX Christopher Hampton has signed on to write the English-language book and lyrics for Broadway-bound tuner "Rebecca. ...
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Coen to read from, sign copies of Chicago mob book
Chicago Daily Herald - Chicago,IL,USA
Author Jeff Coen will read from his new book, "Family Secrets: The Case That Crippled the Chicago Mob," at 2 pm Saturday, May 23, at Borders Books and Music ...
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NFLPA wants look at NFL's fiscal books
ESPN - USA
How long the critical negotiations last, however, might depend on the NFL's desire to share its ledger books with the players, something it has so far has ...
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Posner Blames Capitalism for Greenspan Goofs, Bank Binge: Books
Bloomberg - USA
Posner is a heat-seeking author who lectures at the University of Chicago Law School and has courted controversy in dozens of books on topics as varied as ...
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Pa. man admits selling faux "signed" books online
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
Smith earned more than $300000 since December 2006 from the sale of books purportedly signed by authors dead and alive. They include Anne Rice's "Interview ...
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Brewster Kahle - How Google Threatens Books | LISNews
By Blake
Brewster Kahle - How Google Threatens Books. May 19, 2009 - 11:37am — Blake. Brewster Kahle: If approved, the settlement would produce not one but two court-sanctioned monopolies. Google will have permission to bring under its sole ...
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Embedded with Organized Labor - by Steve Early @ Labour's Online ...
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Union educators should, wherever possible, incorporate books on strikes, organizing, labor history, political economy, and social policy into membership education. And we need to revive other vehicles for doing this as well, ...
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The book is divided into two main sections: "Einblicke und Durchblicke aus historischer Perspektive" and "Durchblicke und Ausblicke aus gegenwartsbezogener Perspektive." As these titles imply, the first part is dominated by historians, ...
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Blog@Newsarama » Blog Archive » "Captain Britain" Cancelled
By Troy Brownfield
This book was great, but I lost interest with the Blade/Dracula story line. I had planned on going back to it once that wrapped up, but with comic book prices these days I have to pick and choose what books to read on a given month. ...
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CBR Live! @ Comic Book Resources » "Fanboys" Took Over Golden ...
By Remy Minnick
SK: That's pretty cool! Local artists and even a black canary dress up! At my local we had some storm troopers and... Rich DeSensi: FCBD is definitely an awesome event that I look forward to every year. I buy books regularly but always. ...
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Arizona's Tucson Citizen won't resume publication

Arizona's Tucson Citizen won't resume publication
The Associated Press
(AP) — The Tucson Citizen won't be forced to resume publication. A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Arizona attorney general's office failed to show ...
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Rosetta Genomics Announces Upcoming Scientific Presentations ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Bio International Convention, Georgia Dome, Atlanta, Georgia - Panel presentation titled "RNA Rx; the Next Wave of Therapeutics beyond rnai. ...
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Wyeth's 'Goodbye' to be published for first time
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
Spokeswoman Nancy McLeod Carter says "Goodbye" will be part of a folio of Wyeth works featured in the publication. Wyeth died at his Pennsylvania home on ...
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Craigslist struggles with sex ad crackdown
CNN - USA
The Web's dominate classifieds publication replaced its controversial "erotic" section with a new "adult" category. And where Craigslist once relied on ...
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Rosetta Genomics Announces Upcoming Scientific Presentations ...
PharmaLive.com (press release) - Newtown,PA,USA
REHOVOT, Israel & PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 20, 2009 - Rosetta Genomics (NASDAQ:ROSG) today announced the company's upcoming speaking events at the ...
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Tucson Citizen Won't Resume Publication - Money News Story - KPHO ...
TUCSON, Ariz. -- The Tucson Citizen won't be forced to resume daily publication. Tuesday, May 19, 2009.
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'Tucson Citizen' won't resume publication
'Tucson Citizen' won't resume publication, Judge: Paper's owner did not violate antitrust laws.
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Electronic Copyright Registration for Photographers - A Picture's ...
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However, "publication" may include the public distribution of copies by means of electronic transmission (e.g. over the internet). The applicant, who knows the facts surrounding distribution of copies of a work, must determine whether ...
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A.I.G.'s Offering May Be Tough Sell - DealBook Blog - NYTimes.com
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There's one difficulty in particular — A.I.G. already tried to sell a chunk of the business, and failed, the publication notes. In February, A.I.A. was on the block with a valuation of about $20 billion. That was approximately equal to ...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Panel Concerned About Abuse of Disabled Students

Panel Concerned About Abuse of Disabled Students
New York Times - United States
... said Representative George Miller, Democrat of California, who heads the House Education and Labor Committee, after a Congressional study found hundreds ...
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All Area School Boards' 2009-10 Budgets Pass
Jamestown Post Journal - Jamestown,NY,USA
In the hotly contested race for three open Panama Central School Board of Education seats, challenger Eric Fransen received the highest number of votes, ...
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Congress hears accounts of abused special-needs students
CNN - USA
The House Committee on Education and Labor heard testimony Tuesday on a report looking at school abuse. The hearing came on the heels of a report issued by ...
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Law Firms Embrace Business School 101
Wall Street Journal - USA
At a growing number of law firms, top attorneys are being trained like business people, using executive education courses designed to strengthen management ...
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Dept. of Education offers performance award
WFIE-TV - Evansville,IN,USA
The Department of Education said it will be the first time the agency has offered "performance awards" to reward school staffs and the State Teachers ...
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The Associated Press
Report: Discipline by teachers can turn deadly
The Associated Press
By 2002, he was under the care of a foster family and attending middle school in Killeen, Texas, in a class with a special education teacher. ...
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Alltech donates $50000 for Ali Center fund
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
Alltech and Louisville's Muhammad Ali Center have formed the Muhammad Ali Global Education and Charitable Fund, using $50000 in funding from the Lexington, ...
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New York Daily News
Harsh lesson: New York City Education Department announces $405 ...
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA
The Education Department announced a $405 million cut Tuesday, an average of 4.9% per school. James Harrigan at PS 229 in Brooklyn said he expected his cut ...
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Education key to reducing bear-human encounters
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
But experts agreed on Tuesday that public education campaigns on living in bear country are key to avoiding problems. "An informed public is the most ...
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AFP
Jordan queen sees role for Twitter in promoting education
AFP
AMMAN (AFP) — Jordan's Queen Rania said on Wednesday that the online social network Twitter could help her campaign to promote quality education around the ...
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