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Get Ready To Set A New Scholastic World Record For Summer Reading – Marketwatch

By admin on Saturday, May 19th, 2012 | Comments Off

The 20 schools whose students log the most minutes will be recognized in the 2013 Scholastic Book of World Records. The Scholastic Summer Challenge kicks-off today at www.scholastic.com/summer and runs through August 31, 2012. “Just like the … Scholastic Books – Bing News

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Is It Time To Rate Young Adult Books for Mature Content? – U.S. News & World Report

By admin on Friday, May 18th, 2012 | Comments Off

ABC News Is It Time To Rate Young Adult Books for Mature Content?U.S. News & World ReportBy Jason Koebler Most parents are happy to see their kids nose down in a book, but according to a new report, they might want to check out what they're reading more closely. Among the top 40 New York [...]

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Magic Town – a virtual world based on popular picture book characters

By admin on Thursday, May 17th, 2012 | Comments Off

  From the press release: What is Magic Town? Magic Town is the first virtual world based on popular picture book characters. As children explore the vibrant landscape and click on the houses, they’ll find stories, games and puzzles. The stories are presented as Livebooks™, our proprietary, interactive story format.   Why Use Magic Town?Reading captures children’s [...]

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Headbanging Anthropologist Takes Us Through the World of Heavy Metal in 2005 Documentary

By admin on Monday, May 14th, 2012 | Comments Off

Don’t worry; I don’t know anything about metal either. As least, I didn’t know anything about it before I watched Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey, a 2005  documentary on this vast yet much-derided musical subculture that you can watch free and uncut on YouTube. Sam Dunn, an anthropologist, bassist, and unapologetic metalhead, uses the [...] Headbanging [...]

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Get Ready To Set A New Scholastic World Record For Summer Reading – Yahoo Finance

By admin on Thursday, May 10th, 2012 | Comments Off

The 20 schools whose students log the most minutes will be recognized in the 2013 Scholastic Book of World Records. The Scholastic Summer Challenge kicks-off today at www.scholastic.com/summer and runs through August 31, 2012. (Logo: http … Scholastic Books – Bing News Serving as a “Reading Ambassador” on behalf of Scholastic, Mrs. Corbett read the [...]

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Book World: Literary transvestism in John Irving’s ‘In One Person’ – Washington Post

By admin on Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 | Comments Off

The Guardian Book World: Literary transvestism in John Irving's 'In One Person'Washington PostJohn Irving's new novel — his 13th — is about a bisexual man. The rest of the details you already know: the prep school setting, some wrestling, a missing father, a career as a popular novelist, a sojourn in Vienna and, of course, [...]

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ArtsBeat: New York, Cultural Capital of the World? Discuss

By admin on Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 | Comments Off

Two panels at the Public Theater wrestled with whether New York was still a nurturing home for artists. NYT > Books

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2006 World Cup final part 9

By admin on Monday, May 7th, 2012 | Comments Off

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Review: ‘Over Time’ author writes with warmth, wit about world of sports – Lincoln Journal Star

By admin on Sunday, May 6th, 2012 | Comments Off

Review: 'Over Time' author writes with warmth, wit about world of sportsLincoln Journal StarOn occasion, it is a laugh-out-loud book, as when he writes about one of his early books, about the Miss America pageant. "Unfortunately," he says," nobody wanted to read a whole book about Miss America. The reviews were terrific though, and everybody [...]

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Neuroscience and Propaganda Come Together in Disney’s World War II Film, Reason and Emotion

By admin on Monday, April 30th, 2012 | Comments Off

Last Friday, we posted Saul Bass’ Why Man Creates. For another short film which drew Academy recognition by using animation to illuminate basic human impulses, you could do worse than Disney’s Reason and Emotion. Just as Bass’ picture, a product of 1968, bears the mark of that era’s ascendant free-your-mind counterculture, [...] Open Culture

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