Posts Tagged ‘world’
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
My friend André de Wet, who has died aged 75, was a photographer with a sharp eye for news pictures and a rare sense of artistry. Born in Cape Town, he was educated at Wellington boys high school, in Cape Province

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André de Wet obituary (Guardian Unlimited)
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
NMS will market the Espresso Book Machine(R) to the collegiate marketplace and permission academic content.

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NACS Media Solutions and On Demand Books Form Partnership (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)
Tags: business, button, connections, delicious, entertainment, espresso, media, media-solutions, opinion, politics, pr-newswire, Sports, stumbleupon, world, Yahoo
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Monday, March 8th, 2010
The skill with which Ron Rash’s tales are constructed is apparent in “Burning Bright,” a new book of stories.

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Rural Pride and Poverty and a Hen’s Empty Nest (New York Times)
Tags: books, books-and-literature, health, literature, movies, obama, opinion-raquo, poverty, rash-ron, real-estate, review, shockwave-flash, style, world
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Saturday, March 6th, 2010
With two million-plus copies of her memoir Going Rogue sold, Sarah Palin is set to make her second assault on the world of books with a new title which will celebrate "American virtues and strengths".

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Sarah Palin to publish book on 'American virtues' (Mail and Guardian)
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010
A collection of some of Wales' oldest and rarest books has been saved following a threat to sell them.

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Thousands of rare books are saved (BBC News)
Tags: bbc-news, british, cardiff, collection, foreign, middle-east, online, university, wales, weather, world
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Some of Wales' oldest books saved from being sold

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Rare reads (BBC News)
Tags: bbc-news, books, british, cardiff, delicious, entertainment, foreign, library, middle-east, most-popular-now, news, online, wales, world
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Friday, February 26th, 2010
Two parts of an ancient biblical manuscript separated across centuries and continents were reunited for the first time in a joint display Friday, thanks to an accidental discovery that is helping illuminate a dark period in the history of the Hebrew Bible.

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Pieces of rare biblical manuscript reunited (AP via Yahoo! News)
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Monday, February 22nd, 2010
A rare copy of the first comic book to feature Superman is sold on the internet for $1m (£646,000).

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Rare copy of the first Superman comic sold for $1m (BBC News)
Tags: action-comics, asia-pacific, bbc-news, british, delicious, entertainment, foreign, in-detail, international, news, podcasts, weather, world
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Saturday, February 20th, 2010
Once passengers shell out hundreds of dollars for a ticket, the sales pitches begin: Checking a bag? Need a pillow

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Will Airlines and Passengers Call a Truce? (New York Times)
Tags: airline, airlines, article, aviation, customer-relations, function-get, industry, markets, money, opinion, opinion-raquo, technology, travel-and-vacations, world
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Thursday, February 11th, 2010
A century of life was once a rare thing, but that is changing. Science is slowly unraveling the secrets of the centenarians

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How To Live 100 Years (Time.com via Yahoo! News)
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