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)

More than 150,000 historic books from 160 National Trust properties have been catalogued online for the first time.

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National Trust: Historic books catalogued online (Yorkshire Evening Post)

Michael Foot was almost devoid of personal ambition, which is rare in a politician of first rank. He had been Liberal President of the Oxford Union and then Labour candidate in a by-election at the age of 22. Yet he had reached the age of 60 before he took office as Minister for Employment in Harold Wilson's last government

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Michael Foot: Writer and politician who rose to become leader of the Labour Party (Independent)

Some of the country's top financial scholars met over the weekend with the panel charged with investigating the causes of the financial crisis.

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Lively Debate, Hard Truths Emerge During Debate On Financial Crisis (The Huffington Post)

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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Rare Superman Comic Sells For $1 Million (NY1 News)

Last Sunday, Buffalo Street Books (formerly The Bookery II) hosted its third Works-In-Progress reading for ten local writers. This was an opportunity for the writers to gauge the audience’s reaction to their unpublished prose and verse.

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Buffalo Street Books (The Cornell Daily Sun)

NEW YORK - A rare copy of the first comic book featuring Superman has sold for US$1 million, smashing a record set just last year.

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'Superman' comic sells for $1M (Jam! Showbiz)

Hot tickets this week: appearances by two of the biggest names in religion and human-rights activism. South Florida gets a rare treat with separate visits by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu .

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The Dalai Lama , Desmond Tutu to speak at Nova Southeastern University (Miami Herald)

Old Editions Book Shop and Cafe has been operating for the past 33 years. The four story store and book warehouse at 74 East Huron Street in Buffalo offers a wide variety of used or out of print books including some very valuable first editions of books.

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Unique Places: Old Editions and Book Collecting (WGRZ-TV Buffalo)

Clevin Hannah takes a breath and walks up to the line, straddling his feet squarely over the midpoint. The Wichita State senior spins the ball once, dribbles three times, spins it again, then gets a good grip before letting fly. Swish! Nearly every time.

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Game's easiest shot can also be its most vexing (AP via Yahoo! Sports)