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Bestselling books the week of 5/12/13, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
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Bestselling books the week of 5/5/13, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
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Bestselling books the week of 4/29/13, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
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Bestselling books the week of 4/22/13, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
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Bestselling books the week of 4/15/13, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
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Bestselling books the week of 3/4/13, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in bookstores across America?
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Humongous camels once roamed the Arctic, say scientists
Paleontologists in Canada's northernmost province have unearthed the shinbone of what they say was a giant camel.
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Energy Voices US oil production: Don't believe the hype
Oil production is headed back up, but it will peak below the 1970 high in the US or even the secondary high notched in 1985, federal estimates say. It can's solve worldwide oil depletion.
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Mushers, dogs line up for Alaska's Iditarod race
The world's most famous sled dog race kicks off Saturday with an 11-mile trot through Alaska's largest city. The real competition begins Sunday 50 miles to the north, finishing in Nome.
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Energy Voices Why globalization is energy intensive and wreaks havoc on oil prices
Globalization uses up finite resources like oil and coal more quickly, Tverberg writes. It also increases carbon dioxide emissions and acts to increase world oil prices, she adds.
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Bestselling books the week of 2/28/13, according to IndieBound*
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Shell halts Arctic oil drilling in 2013
Royal Dutch Shell PLC announced Wednesday it would suspend drilling for oil in the Arctic Ocean in 2013. Shell has experienced several setbacks this winter in its Arctic oil drilling plans.
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'Sequester' scare tactics? White House details 'devastating' 50-state impact. (+video)
A White House report stresses the huge impact the sequester spending cuts would have on states. For some states, that might be true. But for others, the cuts might just be a blip.
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Slight warming could mean big permafrost thaw, say scientists
A study of Siberian caves suggests that a rise of only 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit could melt vast areas of permafrost, which would in turn accelerate warming.
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Alaska lawmaker wants $100 bounty on sea otters
Sea otter bounty: An Alaska state senator says sea otters are a growing threat to shellfish, including crabs. On Wednesday, he introduced legislation that would have the state pay $100 for each sea otter lawfully killed under the federal Marine Mammal Protection Act.
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Bestselling books the week of 2/21/13, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best at bookstores across America.
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Gun owners talk: Self protection is more complex than 'stand and fight'
Gun owners – including one who is a shooting victim and one who killed in self defense – talk about the logic of their tough decision to carry a gun for self protection: Killing isn't always their first goal. Experts stress the complex responsibility involved in carrying a gun.
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Energy Voices Will shale stop the Keystone XL pipeline?
Protests against the Keystone XL pipeline needs to be seen in a broader, economic light, Grealy writes. Canadian tar sands and the Keystone XL pipeline will be a mere sideshow, he adds, and future investment in it will have to fight shale oil, a battle that's already been lost.
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Bestselling books the week of 2/10/13, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best at bookstores across America?
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Two sisters, two wildernesses
For one, the charm is in the microscopic; the other scans for bears.
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On thin ice: As Arctic Ocean warms, a scramble to understand its weather
Increasing summer ice melt in the Arctic Ocean could shift global weather patterns and make polar waters more navigable. But scientists say forecasting Arctic ice and weather remains a massive challenge.
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Bestselling books the week of 2/3/13, according to IndieBound*
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Tax VOX The drawbacks of using states as tax-reform laboratories
With Washington apparently stuck in gear on taxes, it may be tempting to see the states as leading a way to reform, Gordon writes, but the idea of states as laboratories for federal tax reform is fundamentally flawed.
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It's 'common sense' – or is it? The politics of Obama's new favorite phrase.
Politicians from the president to the tea party use the rhetoric of 'common sense' to support their thinking on key issues. But is the phrase really telling us anything at all?
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Climate change's latest victim: the wolverine
Federal officials propose listing wolverine as endangered because its cold-weather habitat could shrink as the climate warms. But US says it won't use wolverine's status to regulate greenhouse gases.
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Energy Voices Alaska mulls tax breaks for oil and gas
Alaska Governor Sean Parnell is courting the oil and gas industries with a legislative proposal designed to make the state as attractive as North Dakota, Alic writes.
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Will your state taxes go up? How legislatures are leaning.
As red states get redder and blue states bluer, state taxes could head in opposite directions. Some states are trying to eliminate income taxes, others are raising them.
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Bestselling books the week of 1/31/13, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.
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Decoder Wire Is Sarah Palin's political career really over?
Lest anyone forget, Sarah Palin has a PAC with almost $1.2 million cash on hand. She may be out at Fox News, but she's got a lot of money to invest in GOP candidates or, if she opts to run for office again, herself.
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New York's heat may be warming Siberia
Heat from northern cities from New York to Tokyo could warm winters in Canada and Siberia, according to a new study, but cool the fall in the western US and Eastern Europe.
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