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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