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Bestselling books the week of 3/31/11, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
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Bestselling books the week of 3/24/11, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
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Bestselling books the week of March 17, 2011, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
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Bestselling books the week of 3/3/11, according to *IndieBound
What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
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Bestselling books the week of 2/24/11, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
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Stir It Up!
The rise of independent cheesemakersArtisanal cheesemakers represent a new version of an old American dream: people making living doing what they want, where they want, on their own land. An MIT anthropologist looks inside the growing world of do-it-yourself American cheesemakers.
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New UC logo: Marketing blunder? Or is storm of criticism overblown?
The venerable University of California traded in its traditional logo for something modern, eliciting a New Media blast of derision. Some experts say the storm over the new UC logo will pass.
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Growing wealth concentration threatens to end American opportunity as we know it
The American creed of equal opportunity is in danger of becoming Hollywood fiction. Wealth concentration, manufacturing's demise, and technology eliminating jobs are destroying upward mobility. We must invest in education, training, and R&D. We must also pay for it.
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Paper Economy
How likely is another US recession?After a few years of mediocre growth, the probability of sliding back into a other recession is enough to cause some worry.
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Prop 37: Safer food or invitation for lawsuits?
Prop 37: The California ballot initiative would require genetically modified food to be labeled. But critics say Prop 37 invites lawsuits against food producers and grocery stores.
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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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Energy Voices
Gas prices: Can the economy weather another rise to $4 gas?High oil prices and rising gas prices weaken an economy because they reduce discretionary spending and indirectly cause people to be laid-off from work, Tverberg writes. Can the US economy stand another jump in prices?
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Hubble Space Telescope reveals extreme view (+video)
The penetrating gaze of the Hubble Space Telescope grants viewers the deepest glimpse ever into the universe's past.
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Pussy Riot sentenced: Is chorus of support helpful, or just fashionable?
Cities across the US took part Friday in Pussy Riot Global Day, but it's not clear whether the support, from governments and celebrities, will help members of the feminist punk group who were sentenced to prison for criticizing Vladimir Putin.
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College may be out of reach for young immigrants
College may not be an option for young adults who can't apply for loans or private scholarships.
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Modern Parenthood
Danell Leyva and John Orozco: Fathers deserve medal in parentingDanell Leyva and John Orozco have both received unwavering support from their fathers, who both set a standard for modern parents trying to connect with their kids through sport. Where's the gold medal for parenting?
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Prominent climate change denier now admits he was wrong (+video)
Richard Muller, who directed a Koch-funded climate change project, has undergone a 'total turnaround' on his stance on global warming, which he now admits is caused by human activity.
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Focus
Fearing boycott, Israeli academics warn against accrediting West Bank schoolThe Israeli higher education committee for the West Bank approved accreditation of Ariel University Center today. One university president warns the move endangers Israel's 'next Nobel prize.'
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Vanishing space dust baffles scientists (+video)
The protoplanetary disk circling a young star has suddenly disappeared, leaving behind a big mystery.
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Is Obama really losing the money battle? A fundraising Q&A.
President Obama is claiming that Mitt Romney and his allies could outspend him, but the truth (not surprisingly) is a little more complicated. Here is what's known about the money race.
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A tomato by any other gene: Just as sweet? (+video)
New research shows that the bland flavor of a popular variety of firm tomatoes is caused by a genetic switch. Locating this switch may enable scientists to create good-tasting and good-shipping tomatoes in the future.
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Focus
Supersize America: Whose job to fight obesity?Banning large sodas, blocking restaurants in some neighborhoods, posting calories, kicking snack foods out of schools. Are anti-obesity campaigns crossing the line into nanny state intrusion?
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Indiana University mourns Elinor Ostrom, only woman to win Nobel in economics
Indiana University professor Elinor Ostrom, the first and only woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, is remembered by her colleagues as 'an irreplaceable and magnificent treasure.'
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As prehistoric birds emerged, giant insects departed (+video)
As the first birds took to the skies about 150 million years ago, huge insects started to decline, say scientists.
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Ann Romney-Hilary Rosen dust-up can't be reduced to a question of 'choice'
The Ann Romney-Hilary Rosen clash presented more than another mommy-wars episode. Calling the decision to parent at home or pursue outside paid labor a ‘choice’ obscures the role that businesses, the economy, and government play in shaping the possibilities that families have.
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Change Agent
'One Day on Earth' captures the variety of human experienceKyle Ruddick and Brandon Litman got some 19,000 people to make videos of what they saw on a single day in every country in the world. The film 'One Day on Earth' shows what they found.
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Horizons
Did Eadweard J. Muybridge get away with murder? (+video)Before Eadweard J. Muybridge completed his breakthrough work in film, for which he earned a Google doodle Monday, the photographer killed a man. History may have been very different if Eadweard J. Muybridge had gone to jail.
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Google glasses – how groovy life could be. But when will they really work? (+video)
The Google glasses video created an online sensation, but the product won't exist anytime soon. There is risk in inflating consumers' expectations.
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Groundhog Day in court? California ban on affirmative action is upheld. Again.
A three-judge panel from the Ninth US Circuit cited a 1997 appeals court decision upholding the affirmative action ban, which led to a sharp decline in minority enrollment at California state universities.
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California colleges consider asking applicants: Are you gay?
The University of California system is considering asking about applicants' sexual orientation. Gay-rights groups applaud the move, but others are worried about student privacy.
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