Thursday, March 25, 2010

Tea time for the center from The Seattle Times: Home

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The nation's political system is dysfunctional with partisan gridlock, writes Thomas L. Friedman. That's why he wants his own tea p...
Saturday, March 13, 2010

"No Ink, No Paper: What's The Value Of An E-Book?" from NPR by LYNN NEARY

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The growing popularity of e-books has raised a difficult question in the publishing marketplace that used to have an easy answer: What'...
Thursday, January 28, 2010

Stephen Colbert Author Interview: Mika Brzezinski On 'All Things At Once' (VIDEO) from Huffington Post, The - Blog by The Huffington Post News Editors

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Stephen Colbert spoke with Mika Brzezinski from Morning Joe last night about her new book, "All Things at Once." She explained to...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Michael Roth: For the State of the Union: Let's Learn from the Anger from Huffington Post, The - Blog by Michael Roth

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Last week's election of the photogenic Scott Brown in Massachusetts has been greeted with stupefaction. How could the unaccomplished Bro...
Friday, January 8, 2010

Henry Luce: American dreamer from The Economist: Full print edition

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The man who gave a name to the American century: The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century. By Alan Brinkley. Knopf; 544 pages; $35...
Saturday, December 26, 2009

Profiling Frank Oppenheimer from NPR Podcast Science Friday

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Author K.C. Cole writes about physicist and Exploratorium-founder Frank Oppenheimer in Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens. Cole, a frien...
Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Who is Mrs. Cohen from Hadera, and should Israelis care where she puts her money? from Slate Magazine by Daniel Gross

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TEL AVIV, Israel—Amram Aharoni has a serious résumé, but he has the mien of a comedian. On Sunday at the Globes' Israel Business Confere...
Saturday, December 19, 2009

David Javerbaum from KQED's Forum Podcast

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"The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" producer David Javerbaum joins us to discuss his new book, "What to Expect When You're ...
Friday, November 20, 2009

Underreported: China's Gulag Prison System (The Leonard Lopate Show: Thursday, 19 November 2009) from Lopate - Underreported by listenerservices@wnyc.org (WNYC, New York Public Radio)

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President Obama was in China this week and he did speak out on the country’s human rights record. On today’s first Underreported segment, we...
Saturday, November 14, 2009

Abnegate (Dictionary.com's Word of the Day)

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1.To refuse or deny oneself; to reject; to renounce. 2. To give up (rights, claims, etc.); to surrender; to relinquish. Quotes: An exagge...