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T. S. Eliot: 10 quotes on his birthday
Here are 10 quotes by the 20th-century literary giant T. S. Eliot.
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Fall books: 19 smart nonfiction picks
Here are 19 fall 2012 nonfiction titles worth checking out.
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Maria Montessori and 10 famous graduates from her schools
Maria Montessori stands in many ways as the mother of alternative education. The Italian physician and teacher invented a new kind of school, one with self-directed learning, classrooms with mixed age groups, and no grades. Now, on what would have been her 142 birthday, thousands of schools bear her name. These Montessori schools have some very famous alumni, many of which credit the free-flowing classes with teaching them to think differently and allowing them to change the world. Here are 10 of the most prominent.
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George Bernard Shaw: 12 memorable quotes on his birthday
July 26th is George Bernard Shaw's birthday. Here are 12 of the playwright's memorable aphorisms.
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Ernest Hemingway: 10 quotes on his birthday
Here are 10 quotes from American journalist and novelist Ernest Hemingway to commemorate the date of his birth on July 21, 1899.
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Egypt's opposition still hopeful, despite many defeats
Egypt's opposition has been notoriously disorganized and unable to rally its supporters. However, it may have finally been beaten badly enough to overcome its troubles.
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Italian Nobel winner, Montalcini, dies at age 103
Italian Rita Levi Montalcini, who won the Nobel Prize in 1986 with American Stanely Cohen for their discovery of nerve growth factor, died Sunday. Montalcini was a well-known figure in Italy, known for encouraging young women to study science.
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Look to the stars
A Christian Science perspective.
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Thousands of Islamists clash with opponents in Egypt
At least 42 people were being treated for injuries, with some rushed to the hospital, a city health official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief reporters.
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Chapter & Verse
Mo Yan's Nobel acceptance speech draws ire from critics (+video)Chinese writer Mo Yan's comments on censorship and his unwillingness to sign a petition for the release of Noblist Liu Xiaobo have angered some fellow writers.
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Amid criticism, EU receives Nobel Peace Prize (+video)
More than 20 top EU leaders attended today's awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union. But critics say the EU's win, coming amid the financial crisis, is inappropriate.
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Difference Maker
Ellen Calmus helps Mexican families cope with cross-border challengesThe Corner Project assists families with relatives in the US, ensuring, for example, that children of migrant workers born in the US are able to register for school or other services in Mexico.
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Chapter & Verse
Herta Muller calls Mo Yan's Nobel win 'a catastrophe'Nobel Prize laureate Herta Muller accuses Mo Yan of praising his country's censorship laws and calls his win 'a slap in the face for all those working for democracy and human rights.'
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The Fun Stuff: And Other Essays
Twenty-three essays showcase preeminent literary critic James Wood as a hungry, happy bookworm.
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Chapter & Verse
Does the literary world need a women-only prize?The Rosalind Prize for Fiction – named for Shakespeare's 'As You Like It' heroine – follows awards like Australia's women-only Stella Prize and the U.K.'s Orange Prize.
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Chapter & Verse
Penguin and Random House complete mergerWriters and readers' groups say there will be less diversity and less price competitiveness because of the merger.
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The price of inequality: Q&A with Nobel economics winner Joseph Stiglitz
Joseph Stiglitz, author of the new book 'The Price of Inequality,' argues that the wealth gap in the United States 'is holding us back' because it weakens consumer demand. 'If we want to restore growth, and therefore full employment and greater tax revenues,' we need to address this gap.
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Terrorism & Security
Former Serb leader Karadzic: I deserve reward, not punishmentFormer Serbian leader Radovan Karadzic is on trial at The Hague for 10 counts of genocide and crimes against humanity. He opened his defense today by saying he had done everything 'in human power' to avoid war.
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Donald Marron
Shapley and Roth get the Nobel Prize for economic engineeringLloyd Shapely and Alvin Roth got a much-deserved Nobel prize for their work on designing markets, Marron writes.
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Two Americans awarded Nobel Prize for economics (+video)
A pair of economics professors will receive the 2012 Nobel Prize in economics for research in stable allocations.
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Modern Parenthood
Next episode of Homeland? No, just a college recruiter chasing NoahAn Army general inviting my sleep-to-noon and video-game-playing son to a national leadership program sounded like something out of Homeland. But, no, it was just one more college recruiter chasing our Noah and our money.
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How did China's Mo Yan win the Nobel Prize for literature? (+video)
While many including China's Communist Party celebrated their countryman's receipt of the Nobel Prize for literature, others criticized the winner, Mo Yan, for failing to be innovative or independent.
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Mo Yan: Why the Swedish Academy awarded Mo Yan the Nobel Prize (+video)
Mo Yan s the first Chinese winner of the literature prize who is not a critic of China's government, but the Swedish Academy says that it did not take political considerations into account when selecting the popular novelist.
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Chinese author Mo Yan wins Nobel Prize in literature (+video)
Nobel Laureate Mo Yan gives readers outside China an idea of what it is like to be Chinese, while people inside China gain a sense of history, says one distinguished translator.
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Chemistry Nobel could lead to drugs with fewer side effects
The US scientists who received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry were able to map how cells detect and respond to chemicals they encounter.
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Physics Nobel goes to quantum theorists
Frenchman Serge Haroche and American David Wineland shared the prize for work involving photons.
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Nobel Prize for Physics rewards 'groundbreaking' quantum experiments
Frenchman Serge Haroche and American David Wineland, who share the 2012 Nobel Prize for Physics, worked independently to develop a way to watch quantum behavior of particles.
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Nobel Physics Prize awarded to photon-detecting quantum pioneers
French physicist Serge Haroche and American physicist David Wineland shared the 2012 Nobel physics prize for their work on quantum optics.
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US, French scientists awarded Nobel Prize in physics (+video)
David Wineland and Serge Haroche will share this year's Nobel prize for their work in quantum physics.
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T. S. Eliot: 10 quotes on his birthday
Here are 10 quotes by the 20th-century literary giant T. S. Eliot.
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