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11 quotes from people who made a difference

Ever wonder how you can help create positive change? Here is advice from 10 outstanding people whose lives made a difference in the world.
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Chapter & Verse Michigan school: 'Anne Frank' will stay

The unedited edition of 'The Diary of Anne Frank' was put under review by a Michigan school district after a mother raised concerns about its use in a seventh-grade classroom.
Chapter & Verse Is the unabridged 'Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl' too much of a good thing?

The unabridged version of 'Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl' includes passages in which Frank writes about her own anatomy – leading to a call for the book's removal from a 7th-grade classroom.
11 quotes from people who made a difference

Ever wonder how you can help create positive change? Here is advice from 10 outstanding people whose lives made a difference in the world.
Maurice Sendak with the Wild Things, now (+video)

The beloved children's book author passed away at 83 after suffering a stroke.
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12 best books for preteens

12 best books for preteens
6 of history's forgotten stories

Ever hear of the man who shot John Wilkes Booth or the "other Anne Frank" family? From Graeme Donald's "The Man Who Shot The Man Who Shot Lincoln," here are six stories that history forgot.
6 questions on "Rin Tin Tin" for Susan Orlean

Rin Tin Tin was a magnificent German Shepherd with a great backstory and an unmatched Hollywood career. But more recently he was looking a bit like a fading babyboomer memory. Then, this fall, came the publication of Susan Orlean's book, Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend. Suddenly, Rin Tin Tin is trending on Twitter – and finding a whole new place in our hearts. I recently asked Orlean six questions about her book and its regal subject. Here are excerpts of our conversation.
The Monitor's View: In Casey Anthony and Dominique Strauss-Kahn cases, lying isn't trivial

Juries are essential to catch lies. Justice relies foremost on honesty. Only then can law enforcement catch rapists and murderers.
The Monitor's View: Slaughter in Libya's Misurata: Is this Obama's 'Rwanda'?

NATO admits it can't help keep Qaddafi forces from slaughtering civilians in Libya's third-largest city, Misurata, which is keey to the rebels' aims. Obama faces a humanitarian choice, as he did with Benghazi.
Ideas for a better world in 2011

In many ways, 2010 is a year you may want to relegate to the filing cabinet quickly. It began with a massive earthquake in Haiti and wound down with North Korea once again being an enfant terrible – bizarrely trying to conduct diplomacy through brinkmanship. In between came Toyota recalls and egg scares, pat downs at airports and unyielding unemployment numbers, too little money in the Irish treasury and too many bedbugs in American sheets. Oil gushed from the floor of the Gulf of Mexico for three months, mocking the best intentions of man and technology to stop it, while ash from a volcano in Iceland darkened Europe temporarily as much as its balance sheets. Yet not all was gloomy. The winter Olympics in Canada and the World Cup in South Africa dazzled with their displays of athletic prowess and national pride, becoming hearths around which the world gathered. In Switzerland, the world's largest atom smasher hurled two protons into each other at unfathomable speeds. Then came the year's most poignant moment – the heroic and improbable rescue of 33 miners from the clutches of the Chilean earth. There were many transitions, too – the return of the Republicans in Washington and the Tories in Britain, the scaling back of one war (Iraq) and the escalation of another (Afghanistan), the fall of some powers (Greece) and rise of others (China, Germany, Lady Gaga). To get the new year off to the right start, we decided to ask various thinkers for one idea each to make the world a better place in 2011. We plumbed poets and political figures, physicists and financiers, theologians and novelists. Some of the ideas are provocative, others quixotic. Some you will agree with, others you won't. But in the modest quest to stir a discussion – from academic salons to living rooms to government corridors – we offer these 25 ideas.
"Running the Books": Avi Steinberg talks about life as a prison librarian

Memoirist Avi Steinberg reflects on the humor, sadness, scariness, and "just utter strangeness" of working in a prison.
"Overheard in a Bookshop"

Bookstore customers say the darndest things. Here are a few of them.
Why Anne Frank's tree stood for so much

Hans Westra, executive director of the Anne Frank House in the Netherlands, says the dreams of the world-famous Jewish girl who died in the Holocaust came to be tied up in the 150-year-old chestnut, which came down in stormy weather.
Anne Frank tree knocked down by storm

Anne Frank was cheered by the monumental chestnut tree while she was hiding from the Nazis. Frank's recollection of the tree can be found in the Feb. 23, 1944 entry in 'The Diary of Anne Frank.'
What to read about the Khmer Rouge

Chief Khmer Rouge executioner "Duch" faces a jail sentence. Which books best dissect the horror of the Khmer Rouge regime?
One Book, One Twitter: the world's largest book club?

'What if a zillion people read and talked about a single book?'
Anne Frank's diary – complete, original – is on display for the first time

The various pieces of Anne Frank's diary are finally being exhibited together in the Amsterdam building where she wrote them.
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