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Google's online library: Worries surround pending deal for access to millions of books (Herald & Review)

Lifelong Hope Valley resident Joseph Soares has always been interested in local history, and it was his passion for collecting historic photographs that led him to pen books on the area's history.

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Hope Valley author races to keep up with local history (The Westerly Sun)

Minnesota held No. 6 Purdue to the worst first half in the Boilermakers' record books and rolled to a 69-42 victory in the Big Ten tournament semifinals Saturday in Indianapolis.

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Minnesota upsets Purdue, 69-42, in the Big Ten tournament (Washington Post)

RURAL MUSCATINE, Iowa — Walk into the Swamp White Oak Preservealong the Cedar River west of here and you’re not likely to noticeanything different between it and the woods down the road.

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Iowa counties home to rare level of biological diversity (Quad-City Times)

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)

Just what makes this mighty media organisation tick? An exclusive extract from a new book about the company offers some insights To visit Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California, is to travel to another planet

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A rare peek inside Google's HQ (Guardian Unlimited)

CHELTENHAM – The Phil-Mont Christian boys’ basketball team has already put their names in the school’s history books by being the first team to reach the quarterfinals of districts, but they wanted more.

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Phil-Mont Christian boys cooled off by Girard (Springfield Sun)

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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Classrooms silent in rare event (Columbia Daily Tribune)

As SETI approaches its 50th anniversary, three books tackle the question of why we have not yet found evidence of alien intelligence

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The mystery of the silent aliens (New Scientist)

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

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