BEIJING (AP) — Google's threat to pull out of China over censorship is a rare display of defiance in a system where foreign companies have long accepted intrusive controls to gain access to a huge and growing market.

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Google threat a rare show of defiance in China, where companies have long accepted controls (Chicago Tribune)

The people at Skyline Books emailed us to let us know they'd be closing up shop January 31st, 2010 — after being in business since September of 1990.

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Rare Bookstore Cat Soon To Be On Streets? (Gothamist)

Though it's not what he's known for, Andy Warhol created some really cute illustrations for a children's book series ! And now a set of those illustrations is headed toward the auction block next month as part of Bloomsbury's Illustrated Books auction . Reportedly "they were drawn by Warhol early in his career, between 1957 and 1959, for the Doubleday Book Club's popular series Best in Children ...

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Sendak and Warhol on the Block (Gothamist)

Sea Wolf in concert | Photo by Koga /LAist It was just a few months ago when 6-year old Pablo Castelaz lost his battle with cancer, after treatment at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles. 13 months before that, he was diagnosed, almost seemingly out of nowhere showing no warning signs prior, with bilateral Wilms’ Tumor, a rare form of children’s cancer.

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Sea Wolf, Band of Horses & Others to Play this Saturday to Fight Children's Cancer (LAist)

What are you grateful for? I am grateful for libraries, authors, books, words, poems, awesome illustrations, books on CD and time -- time to snuggle under a fluffy blanket, falling into worlds I never imagined with a good book.

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Books to gobble up (The Herald News)

North Central College gave stargazers a view of the galaxy Tuesday they couldn't get from a typical telescope.

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North Central offers rare view of Milky Way (Daily Herald)

Given a rare chance to look at the Kane County's budget situation as one big group, county board members decided Tuesday it's time to talk about the issues that have been dodged in committee.

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Kane Co. studies options to solve budget crisis (Daily Herald)

Independently owned Harvard Book Store just announced that it will be getting an Espresso Book Machine, the newfangled device that allows you to print your own public domain books straight from Google Books. According to the bookstore, Espresso "can produce library-quality, perfect bound paperback editions from a virtually limitless inventory of digital titles in multiple languages, including ...

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Harvard Book Store to Print Google Books (Bostonist)

Come for the Canadian coastline. Stay for the love of books. Here, in this coastal Western Canadian town, it's all about the books -- thousands of them scattered throughout 12 stores.

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Booktown, Canada (Chicago Tribune)

In a world obsessed with fly-by-night celebrities it's rare to find a picture book that transcends its subject. Bill Hale's book is one of those few that are more than developed film on paper, but a time machine in book form of the mightiest metal band the world has ever known- Metallica.

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Metallica: The Club Dayz 1982-1984 Photo Book by Bill Hale (antiMUSIC)