Posts Tagged ‘technology’

Howard struggles, but books spot in Brier final (Ottawa Citizen)

Friday, March 12th, 2010

Glenn Howard and his rink paraded into the Page 1 vs.

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Howard struggles, but books spot in Brier final (Ottawa Citizen)

Rare book on Supreme Court snubbed by National Book Store? (ABS-CBNNEWS.com)

Friday, March 12th, 2010

Ramos: National Book Store has right to choose what books to carry MANILA, Philippines – The first book that provides an eye-popping look into the closed world of the Supreme Court almost never made it to print and has been snubbed by a major bookstore.

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

Friday, March 12th, 2010

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)

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

Monday, March 8th, 2010

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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Sex, death … and Reading (Forbes)

Monday, March 8th, 2010

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

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Sex, death ... and Reading (Forbes)

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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Comics good as gold (Stuff)

The mystery of the silent aliens (New Scientist)

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

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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Pieces of rare biblical manuscript reunited (3news)

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.

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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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Superman’s debut comic book sells for $1-M (Manila Bulletin)

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

NEW YORK (AP) -- A rare copy of the first comic book featuring Superman sold Monday for $1 million, smashing the previous record price for a comic book. A 1938 edition of Action Comics No.

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Superman's debut comic book sells for $1-M (Manila Bulletin)