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Making the most of your magazine subscriptions
When it comes to magazines, keep an eye on how much you are reading, and whether or not a particular subscription enriches your life in some way.
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Grant’s Final Victory
Charles Bracelen Flood offers a fascinating coda to a remarkable life in this brisk, well-told history of the final months and days of Ulysses S. Grant.
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Finally – a Booker Prize win for Julian Barnes
His fourth time nominated was the charm for British novelist Julian Barnes, winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize.
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Calling it a day in the 24/7 workplace
The Monitor's language columnist turns to a radio metaphor as she looks for a new term to signal the end of the workday.
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Susan Sarandon calls pope a Nazi, offends large segments of humanity
Susan Sarandon managed to offend both Jews and Catholics by reportedly calling Pope Benedict XVI a Nazi. Apparently her comment was an attempt to say something nice about Benedict's predecessor, Pope John Paul II.
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Bestselling books the week of 10/20/11, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
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Ron Paul: Are the media really still ignoring him?
Ron Paul gets the least news coverage of any GOP White House hopeful, according to a new Pew poll. But here are some reasons that the Paul-is-being-ignored conclusion may be off the mark.
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Grace Potter, of Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, promotes fair trade
Grace Potter and musician Michael Franti will be performing live from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday on Green Mountain Coffee's Facebook page.
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To fight hunger, donate 'Just One Can'
Tony Marren founded Operation Just One Can to make it easy for Americans to get involved in solving the problem of hunger in the United States.
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Rethinking your hobbies
Financially, make sure your enjoyment in your hobbies matches the money that you put into them
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10 top favorite teen books of 2011
Just in time for Teen Read Week 2011, teens cast more than 10,000 votes to pick their favorite books in a contest sponsored by the Young Adult Library Services Association. What made it to No. 1?
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Media report card for presidential election: Who's gotten the best coverage?
In the first six months of the 2012 presidential election, the news media have given Rick Perry the most positive attention but Herman Cain's star is rising.
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President Obama's economic road show: Why the bus?
To promote his jobs bill, Obama is rolling down the highway this week in a $1.1 million black bus, code-named 'Stagecoach.' The bus, it seems, has some big assets over Air Force One or the traditional motorcade.
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National Book Award young adult nominees are back to five
Author Lauren Myracle is asked to withdraw by the National Book Foundation after a mistaken announcement.
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Van Gogh: new book says he didn't commit suicide
"Van Gogh: The Life" says the artist was shot, possibly accidentally, by two teenage boys.
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Booker Prize winner to be announced tomorrow amid controversy
The favorite to win the award, author Julian Barnes, once called the prize "posh bingo."
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First chinks appearing in the armor of Herman Cain's 9-9-9 plan?
Herman Cain got a thorough grilling on his 9-9-9 plan Sunday. He acknowleded some Americans might pay more under 9-9-9, but that might not be what hurts him most among GOP voters.
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Colson Whitehead takes on the zombie trend
Colson Whitehead's new book puts an original spin on the post-apocalyptic genre, say reviews.
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Lost da Vinci: Priceless da Vinci portrait sold for $21,000
Lost da Vinci: Art historian Martin Kemp, of the University of Oxford, believes the mystery painting, which appeared in 1998, is a portrait of the duke's daughter, created by da Vinci for her wedding book.
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Paul McCartney letter offered tryout to mystery drummer
Paul McCartney letter: A newly discovered letter found folded in a book at a Liverpool yard sale has shed new light on the Beatles' early days, revealing that Paul McCartney offered an audition to a mystery drummer in 1960, just a few days before the band left for a formative two-month gig in Hamburg, Germany.
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Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi
NPR host Steve Inskeep writes about Karachi – a sprawling, striving, fractured city on the rise.
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"Henrietta Lacks" author Rebecca Skloot writing new book
Bestselling author Rebecca Skloot will release a book about humanity's relationship with animals
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Kenya sends troops into Somalia in major policy shift
Kenya's military intervention into neighboring Somalia follows a string of kidnappings on Kenyan soil by Somali pirates and terrorist threats by Al Shabab, an Islamist militant group linked to Al Qaeda.
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MLK Memorial: From China, with love?
MLK Memorial plans have been dogged by controversy over links to China. The MLK Memorial was built by a Chinese sculptor from Chinese granite. But backers are pleased with the result.
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Six things you probably didn't know about Ayn Rand
Nearly 30 years after her passing, Ayn Rand is experiencing a renaissance as the economy sputters and government efforts to spur growth fall short. With over 25 million copies of her books in print, including “Atlas Shrugged” and “The Fountainhead,” Ms. Rand had a history of engaging groups of dedicated followers on her small government, free market, and individualist philosophy. Now, she's gaining fans among tea party activists and others worried about the spread of government. Here are six things even her fans probably didn’t know about her:
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