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The finalists are in . Few literary hounds are surprised by this entry : The Pulitzer prize-winning [Philip] Roth makes the line-up for
The Humbling , in which the ageing actor Simon converts Pegeen, a
lesbian, to heterosexuality. The Literary Review singled out a scene in
which Simon and ...
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Bella DePaulo gets it too :
From my post as an outside observer, it seems to me that Sarah Palin
doesn't care much about the truth. In that way, she is a very special
liar. Instead, Palin seems to love the effect her disingenuous
pronouncements have on her audiences and so she just runs with ...
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Sarah Palin
A People reader asks Palin, "How is your daughter Bristol doing as a young mother?" She replies :
She's spectacular. She's amazing. Still doesn't get a lot of sleep
because Tripp is a light sleeper through the night and Bristol's got
him all the time. But she's going to ...
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Sarah Palin
Researchers are trying to create microchips that function like neurons:
“Energy efficiency isn’t just a matter of elegance. It fundamentally limits what we can do with computers,” [Kwabena Boahen, a Stanford scientist] says. Despite the amazing progress in electronics technology—today’s ...
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The Economist looks at the politics and economics of reducing the deficit: Historically, politicians are most likely to tackle deficits when
prodded by markets. Denmark in 1982, Ireland in 1987 and Canada in 1995
all embarked on ambitious programmes after spiralling debts had driven
up ...
World
Denmark
Ireland
Canada
Bill Clinton
A reader writes: I'm a college grad who has been unemployed for several months now. I'm scraping by living and doing volunteer work at a hostel while searching for work, and living off a bare-bones unemployment check (which pays for food, that's about it) that is about to expire. ...
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Recession
"100 dancers led by one of Australia's most famous drag queens surprised bathers on Bondi Beach with a medley of hot jams. It starts with “Love Shack” and only gets better from there…"
World
Australia
Andy Towle and Rex Wockner capture the minute-by-minute insistence of running any kind of blog: Rex: How many hours a day do you work? Andy: Generally from like 6:15 in the morning till 7, 8, 9 at night. Rex: Is your boyfriend OK with that? Andy:
Not really. He'd like me to work probably ...
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History professor and Alaskan David Noon corrects Palin for repeating the myth of "Seward's Folly" - the purchase of Alaska in 1867 by Secretary of State William Seward. From Going Rogue :
Critics ridiculed Seward for spending so much on a remote chunk of
earth that some ...
World
Phil Wolf, owner of Wolf Automotive used car dealership, stands in
front of a billboard on his auto lot on November 21, 2009 in Wheat
Ridge, Colorado. Wolf paid $2,500 to have the billboard painted, and it
has sparked controversy since it was put up the day before. Wolf, 57,
said the ...
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Bud Day
Barack Obama
Ed Pilkington tells the story :
George Patten, aged eight, [...] boasted at school about having met Abraham Lincoln, having been introduced to the then presidential candidate with his journalist father. The boy's friends thought he had made the story up, and bullied him. To settle the ...
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Bud Day
Abraham Lincoln
Blanche Lincoln
Jonah Lehrer posits : [T]he only way we're ever going to reduce medical costs is to restrict procedures that haven't passed evidence-based efficacy tests. Maybe that means 40 year old women don't get mammograms, or that we treat prostrate cancer less aggressively, or that we stop performing ...
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The grandmother of Tripp Johnston, Bristol Palin's infant and Sarah Palin's grandson, is headed to jail for three years plus three years of probation: Johnston made a deal with prosecutors to
plead to a single felony count in exchange for dropping five other
felony drug dealing charges against ...
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Sarah Palin
An amateur's moment of glory in rugby: a $400,000 prize is awarded to any of a group of rugby fans to kick the ball and hit the crossbar. First up, Steve Tinner:
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Liz Cheney's terror-mongering advocacy group releases an ominous short documentary about how the citizens of Standish, Michigan, are supposedly dead set against the transfer of detainees to a nearby prison. Greg Sargent cuts through the deception:
But Standish’s City Manager tells us that ...
