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3 intriguing books you may have missed in 2010

Here are three good reads that might have flown under your radar this year. Before you get inundated with 2011 releases, we recommend that you take a look.
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The Reformed Broker
Hedge funds: Should you bother?

Hedge funds have traditionally been a very rich man's game, but one broker is trying to bring the hedge fund experience to the medium rich.
Decoder Wire
Was Amelia Earhart a US spy? (+video)

The rumor persists that Amelia Earhart was spying on Japan for her good friend, President Franklin Roosevelt. A new expedition to find her downed aircraft may finally put to rest some of the wild theories about the aviatrix.
Amelia Earhart: Why is Hillary Clinton backing new search? (+video)

Amelia Earhart might have crashed on Nikumaroro island, a private group suggests. Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that the US is backing the group's effort to discover the truth.
The new clue that could solve the Amelia Earhart mystery (+video)

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has joined scientists and aviation archaeologists in unveiling a renewed search for the wreckage of the plane flown by Amelia Earhart as she attempted to circle the globe in 1937.
Hillary Clinton wades into mystery of Amelia Earhart

New photographic evidence shows parts of a plane on a Pacific Island. Hillary Clinton meets Tuesday with a group investigating the disappearance of American aviator Amelia Earhart.
Little girls or little women? The Disney princess effect

In today's highly sexualized environment – where 5-year-olds wear padded bras – some see the toddlers-and-tiaras Disney princess craze leading to the pre-teen pursuit of "hot" looks. Do little girls become little women too soon?
Everett Ruess: two new biographies

The story of Everett Ruess – the young explorer of the American West who vanished in the 1930s – remains an unsolved mystery to this day.
In Pictures: Real-life wonder women
3 intriguing books you may have missed in 2010

Here are three good reads that might have flown under your radar this year. Before you get inundated with 2011 releases, we recommend that you take a look.
Amelia Earhart mystery solved? South Pacific bones may have answers.

Bones found on a South Pacific island may be those of Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while attempting to become the first woman to fly around the world.
Amelia Earhart rare photos on display in Hawaii

Amelia Earhart's visit to the historic Waikiki hotel will be seen in rare photographs from the 1930's.
Space junk close to International Space Station; new astronauts arrive

Space junk has NASA keeping a close eye on the International Space Station. New residents arrived Thursday.
Amelia Earhart's watch brought to International Space Station

Amelia Earhat's watch, which the famed aviator wore on two trans-Atlantic flights was brought aboard the International Space Station 82 years to the day after her first flight.
The Daily Reckoning
Debt crisis reality check: EU's bad debt won't go away

The debt crisis for weakest members of the EU has gone too far. Their bad debt will have to be restructured.
In Pictures: WASPs: Female pilots in World War II
Northwest Airlines, Amelia Earhart, and 'balloon boy'

The connection is whimsical. But flying is serious business, especially when passengers are aboard. And why did those Northwest pilots wander so far past Minneapolis?
Review: 'Amelia'

Biopic of Earhart's rise to fame is such a smooth ride the film lacks spark and edge.
From our files: Eunice Kennedy Shriver - at jet speed

In a 1975 interview with the Monitor, Mrs. Shriver spoke of her family, her heroes, personal ambitions.
Review: 'Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian'

Pumped-up sequel still manages to turn a magical idea into an uninspired theme park.