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April 3, 2009 Trouble Among the Stacks: Downturn Puts New Stresses on Libraries
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April 3, 2009 Money Matters: Psychologists on Why Money Messes With Our Minds
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April 2, 2009 No Mas?: Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez “Lays Down His Pen”
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April 2, 2009 DUMBO Dock Street Project Update – Historian David McCullough Rallies Opposition
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April 2, 2009 Un-GOD-ly?: A Playmobil Christ & Lecherous Pope
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April 2, 2009 Great Black Hope: Pardon Sought for Former Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jack Johnson
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April 1, 2009 To Wit, the Pun: “The Feeblest Species of Humor”
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April 1, 2009 Today’s Sign of the Apocalypse: Miss Universe Has “Fun” at Guantanamo
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April 1, 2009 Read & Relax: Six Minutes to a Calmer You
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March 31, 2009 The Kindness of Cavemen: Ancient Skull Suggests Human Ancestors Had Compassion
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March 31, 2009 Amherst, Massachusetts “250th Anniversary” Literary Festival Set to Open April 1st
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March 30, 2009 “New” Walker Percy Short Story to be Published in “The Hopkins Review”
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March 30, 2009 Hola Havana: Washington Mulls Lifting Travel Ban to Cuba
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March 30, 2009 R.I.P. – Helen Levitt (1913-2009)
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March 29, 2009 Spanish Disquisition: Spanish Court Weighs Inquiry on Torture for Bush Officials
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March 29, 2009 49th Annual “New York Antiquarian Book Fair” Set to Open Friday (4/3)
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March 28, 2009 Less is the New More: Finding Happiness & Prosperity in a Post-Consumption Economy
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March 27, 2009 Powell’s Books & The Future of Portland, Oregon
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March 27, 2009 2009 “Oddest Book Title of the Year” Award Winner Announced
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March 27, 2009 On Broadway: Sotheby’s to Auction Rare 1840s New York City Daguerreotype
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