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- July posted on 03/10/2009Toby Alone (Hardcover) by Timothee De Fombelle (Author), Francois Place (Illustrator), Sarah Ardizzone (Translator) Editorial Reviews Amazon.com Review Amazon Best of the Month, March 2009: Who says great characters need to be larger than life? Meet Toby Lolness, a boy who stands one and a half millimeters tall (just smaller than the tip of a pencil). This Lilliputian hero lives in a marvelously vast complex of trunks and branches known as the Tree, an enormous oak inhabited by a tiny civilization
- July posted on 03/10/2009Lowboy: A Novel (Hardcover) by John Wray (Author) Editorial Reviews Amazon.com Review Amazon Best of the Month, March 2009: I'm not the first and certainly won't be the last reader to herald Lowboy for the subtle homage it pays to one of the best-known heroes in 20th century fiction, or to envy and delight in its masterful vision of New York City as seen from its darkest, most primal places. What's most seductive for me about John Wray's third novel--and arguably the one that puts him squarel
- July posted on 03/09/2009A wide-ranging study on American religious life found that the Roman Catholic population has been shifting out of the Northeast to the Southwest, the percentage of Christians in the nation has declined and more people say they have no religion at all. Fifteen percent of respondents said they had no religion, an increase from 14.2 percent in 2001 and 8.2 percent in 1990, according to the American Religious Identification Survey. Northern New England surpassed the Pacific Northwest as the least religiou
- July posted on 03/09/2009Investor tells CNBC unemployment level could climb a lot higher OMAHA, Neb. - Billionaire Warren Buffett remains confident that Americas best days are ahead, but he says the nation likely will face higher unemployment and eventually inflation because of the current economic crisis. Buffett said the nations leaders need to emphasize a consistent message, and they should support President Barack Obamas efforts to repair the economy because fear is dominating Americans behavior. Buffett said t
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- July posted on 03/09/2009Baghdad suicide bombing kills about 30 people, the worst attack in months BAGHDAD - About 12,000 U.S. soldiers will leave Iraq by September, officials said Sunday, hours after a Baghdad suicide bomber killed about 30 people in a chilling reminder of the nation's still-shaky security. The withdrawals, which will most likely come from Baghdad and Anbar province, once main battlefields of the war, are the first step in keeping with President Barack Obama's pledge to end America's role in the war. T
- July posted on 03/08/2009Her voice always makes me cry. So powerful. Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 C October 4, 1970) was an American singer, songwriter, and music arranger, from Port Arthur, Texas. She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company, and later as a solo artist. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Joplin number 46 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time and number 28 on its 2008 list of 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. ----------------------
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- July posted on 03/06/2009The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in its First Age of Terror by Beverly Gage (Author) Just after noon on September 16, 1920, as hundreds of workers poured onto Wall Street for their lunchtime break, a horse-drawn cart packed with dynamite exploded in a spray of metal and fire, turning the busiest corner of the financial center into a war zone. Thirty-nine people died and hundreds more lay wounded, making the Wall Street explosion the worst terrorist attack to that point in U.S. histor
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- July posted on 02/18/2009Shrinking output and substantial unemployment rate until 2011 WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve on Wednesday sharply downgraded its projections for the countrys economic performance this year, predicting the economy will actually shrink and unemployment will rise higher. Under the new projections, the unemployment rate will rise to between 8.5 and 8.8 percent this year. The old forecasts, issued in mid-November, predicted the jobless rate would rise to between 7.1 and 7.6 percent. The Fed also b
- July posted on 02/18/2009A polygamist on her non-traditional lifestyle and why Big Love is silly By Kathleen Lewis updated 3:32 p.m. CT, Tues., Feb. 17, 2009 "Non-traditional" is a popular catchall phrase that seems, in common usage, to mean anything that differs from the mainstream. It also describes a large portion of my life. My upbringing was entirely unremarkable, and certainly included nothing of this sort. I was first introduced to such alternative relationships in college when a female friend of mi
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- July posted on 02/13/2009Indications that species evolve through process of natural selection Introduction Scientists around the world are celebrating the 200th birthday of British naturalist Charles Darwin, who was born on Feb. 12, 1809. Darwins groundbreaking 1859 book, The Origin of Species, proposed the theory that species evolve over time through the process of natural selection. Organisms most suited to their environment survive and reproduce, passing on their advantageous traits to offspring. Organisms that can
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