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Some sexually oriented businesses had asked Cole County Circuit Court Judge Jon Beetem to hold off on allowing that law to go into effect. But he ruled that they didn’t give him enough time to consider their …
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New numbers confirm what the sweaty brows of Northeasterners have been saying for months: The summer of 2010 was a record-breaking scorcher. Preliminary figures provided by the Northeast …
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Jenny Barchfield, The Associated Press PARIS – A French official says French diet guru Michel Montignac, whose “glycemic index” weight-loss books sold millions of copies, has died. The official at the City Hall of …
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Chris Tucker is a Dallas-based book collaborator and commentator for KERA-FM (90.1), National Public Radio. Jonathan Franzen does not publish often, and when he does, critics and readers of serious fiction …
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An Amur/Siberian tiger. The photograph will be included in the new John Vaillant book “The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival.” Photographer: John Goodrich/Random House via Bloomberg The cover …
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Today is the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s landfall, and naturally there are plenty of books to commemorate the worst natural and not-so-natural disaster in U.S. history. Not only do these new books …
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Preliminary figures from the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University show 28 cities from Washington, D.C., to Caribou, Maine, set record highs for average temperature from March through August. The records …
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Authors who take books as their subjects may border on solipsistic, but then, who are their readers if not self-absorbed children? And pushing books rather than the latest product tie-ins can’t be all bad. In …
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The author’s clever and poignant writing keeps readers enthralled at her every triumph and personal trial, and it speaks to anyone who’s struggled to reconcile faith and ways of worship. — Publisher’s Weekly NASHVILLE …
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Grandparents tend only to see the good in their offspring’s offspring, yet for Kansas University offensive coordinator Chuck Long, one day 28 Septembers ago even his grandmother couldn’t think of anything …
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