Compelling Stories, if Not Literature
Monday, June 28th, 2010Every patient has a story; how good it is depends on your own experience.

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Compelling Stories, if Not Literature
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Every patient has a story; how good it is depends on your own experience.

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Compelling Stories, if Not Literature
A good inscription in a used book offers a hint of relationships beyond the ones imagined by the volumes author.

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Learning Something From Books, Before Their Texts Even Begin
Among the books the National Cathedral may part with are some donated by Queen Elizabeth II and the first Bible written in modern language.

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National Cathedral Might Sell Rare Books
The cellphone carrier Softbank announced new handsets designed to link to the micro-blogging site, part of a concerted effort to get a piece of Americas tech savvy.

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Softbank to Help Twitter Get Even Bigger in Japan
A new book from the former teenage actress is part memoir and part guide to life.

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With 42 Candles, Grown-Up Advice
Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase finished the first quarter without losing money from trading for even one day.

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For 3 Firms, a Perfect Quarter for Trading
Proof of Mark Twains literary criticism has resided in a small library in Redding, Conn., where hundreds of his personal books have sat in obscurity for 100 years.

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Scrawled in the Margins, Signs of Twain as a Critic
Last year, 13 out of every 10,000 passengers were bumped on domestic flights, down from over 20 per 10,000 passengers in 1999.

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Airlines, Masters of Overbooking, Are Bumping Less
A set of Chinese government censorship guidelines recently leaked to the Internet provides a rare and intimate window into the thinking of propaganda officials.

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What Chinese Censors Don’t Want You to Know (New York Times)
The Yale law library, which has one of the best collections of rare law books in the world, is now the official repository of Supreme Court justice bobblehead dolls.

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Relax, Legal Scholars: Bobbleheads Are Safe at Yale (New York Times)