Was South Africa the right place for the World Cup?

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Mixed review for South Africa's Cup

A commission appointed by President Barack Obama to investigate the Gulf of Mexico oil spill gives academics and environmentalists a prominent role in making recommendations about the future of offshore drilling in the United States.

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Obama's oil spill commission to probe disaster

Hollywood made him famous, but that was just one of his aspects. He also championed artists, and made art as well. As an exhibition of his work opens at MOCA, he is remembered by some who knew him.

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Dennis Hopper, easy-rider art enthusiast

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Keeping a used bookstore open these days is getting harder than ever. Broward has fewer than a half-dozen secondhand bookstores still in business and they face an uncertain future. Not only has the Internet stolen potential customers who can buy books at bargain prices online, but also the growing popularity of e-books and digital readers, such as Amazon's Kindle and Barnes & Noble's Nook ...

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Used bookstores in Broward offer bargains and more

Nadal etching out a lofty place in tennis lore. Tennis - sport - Rafael Nadal - Andy Murray - Roger Federer

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Nadal puts himself among tennis legends

Sensing a business and cultural opportunity, Scholastic carefully translates English-language books like "Heidi" and "The Magic School Bus" to be used at schools in several Arab-speaking countries. The publisher was on a rare and delicate mission to translate and mass-market books from America for a part of the world that often rails against American values.

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Scholastic makes inroads into Arabic children's book market

Wimbledon win would put Nadal in company of rare greatness.

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Nadal eyes rare French-Wimbledon feat

An expanded catalog of Jewish life, history and culture, from music and art to rare books and archives, soon will be available at U.C. Berkeley.

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Magnes partners with U.C. Berkeley to preserve collection

DURHAM, England, June 18 (UPI) -- A Shakespeare First Folio, one of the most valuable printed books in the world, made an appearance Friday in an English courtroom as evidence in a trial.

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Rare Shakespeare volume now evidence