Posts Tagged ‘education’

Historic rugby books found (Stuff)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

A young trailbike rider has helped reunite the son of a former All Black with two stolen historic rugby books, but his rare book is still missing.

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Historic rugby books found (Stuff)

From stick figures to sweet flick (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Jeff Kinney had a clear template when it came time to adapt his wildly successful Diary of a Wimpy Kid children's books to the big screen.

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From stick figures to sweet flick (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

Comics good as gold (Stuff)

Saturday, March 6th, 2010

THE PEOPLE pounding the pavements above are oblivious, but under the streets of central Auckland lies a vault holding comic books of such worth that they have been brought out of their secure holding only three times in the past eight years.

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‘After Her Brain Broke’ (in Tyee Books) (The Tyee)

Friday, March 5th, 2010

Susan Inman's memoir is a must read for any family faced with schizophrenia, and for our health system, too.

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'After Her Brain Broke' (in Tyee Books) (The Tyee)

Classrooms silent in rare event (Columbia Daily Tribune)

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Kids might never have been so quiet. Today more than 6,000 Columbia Public Schools elementary students stopped what they were doing and read for 15 minutes as part of Read Across America, sponsored by the National Education Association.

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Pieces of rare biblical manuscript reunited (WAVE 3 Louisville)

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

Two parts of an ancient biblical manuscript separated across centuries and continents were reunited for the first time in a joint display Friday, thanks to an accidental discovery that is helping illuminate a dark period in...

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Batman, Superman comic books set records for sale price (Washington Post)

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

Even through his shaded glasses, Tim Burton clearly was wide-eyed.

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Rare Superman Comic Sells For $1 Million (NY1 News)

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

A rare copy of the first comic book featuring Superman sold yesterday for a record $1 million to an unnamed buyer in New York.

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Termites feasting on Gandhi books in his ashram (New Kerala)

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

Gandhinagar, Feb 21 : Books on Mahatma Gandhi are an endangered lot in his own hermitage, the Sabarmati ashram in Ahmedabad. Over a hundred books on the Mahatma and some of his photographs were consigned to a fire last week after termites feasted on them.

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Termites feasting on Gandhi books in his ashram (New Kerala)

OUTDOORS: Fisher makes rare appearance (The Brockton Enterprise)

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

   The scarcely-seen mammal makes a Saturday morning appearance.    

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OUTDOORS: Fisher makes rare appearance (The Brockton Enterprise)