Liz Carpenter, an author and former press secretary to first lady Lady Bird Johnson, died Saturday at an Austin hospital after contracting pneumonia earlier in the week, said her daughter, Christy Carpenter. Carpenter was 89.

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Former press secretary for Lady Bird Johnson dies (AP via Yahoo! News)

Blinking in the brilliant light, this is a fluffy polar bear cub coming face to face with the spectacular Arctic outdoors for the first time.

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Here comes the sun: Rare images capture mother polar bear taking her fluffy cub outdoors for the very first time (Daily Mail: World News)

Art theft isn't just a cultural issue--but a social, economic and security one as well.

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No Justice For Stolen Art (Forbes)

UK ginancial group Arbuthnot went back into the black last year as it became a rare example of a bank where profits have been driven by its retail business and not investment banking.

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Arbuthnot back in the black thanks to retail banking (Daily Telegraph)

Just as prices for collectible comics are rocketing to new highs with the sales of two comic books for $1 million each, longtime comic collector and roleplaying-game trailblazer Stewart Wieck unveiled a new comic-auction site called GetSlabbed.com.

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New Comic Auction Site Launches As Comic Books Set Record Prices (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)

Sex.com, often touted as one of the most valuable Internet domain names, is due to head to the auction block next week.

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Lender putting www.sex.com on auction block (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Suffering from erectile dysfunction or benign prostatic hyperplasia? Go out and buy a book.

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Sex, death ... and Reading (Forbes)

The skill with which Ron Rash’s tales are constructed is apparent in “Burning Bright,” a new book of stories.

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Rural Pride and Poverty and a Hen’s Empty Nest (New York Times)

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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Comics good as gold (Stuff)

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)