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Number of comments: 0 Laurie Hertzel, books editor at the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, is running an office book sale for the next few days. All proceeds go to the ACES scholarship fund. Thank you, Laurie! Great way to use leftover books.
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Posted: December 01, 2009, 5:24pm EST by Pam
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Number of comments: 0 Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Brysac, for the Pulitzer Center  Trivandrum, November 30 -- ?Kerala is a consuming society, not a producing society,? we were told by an expatriate Keralite before we left the United States. Abraham George is a businessman- philanthropist, an acute observer of [...]
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Number of comments: 0 Just fifty years ago, the people of Igloolik, Nunavut were nomads.
Today, Linda Matchan reports from Igloolik, examining the
young people of the Igloolik community who cope as tradition
collides with education and the modern world. [...]
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As I grower older and less wise, I find myself in arguments with -- of all people -- myself. An Angel version of myself will often appear on one shoulder ready to stick a lance through the Lucifer version of me on the other. One side of me opposes capital [...]
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Posted: December 01, 2009, 2:56pm EST
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Number of comments: 0 Philip Brasher, for the Pulitzer Center 
It remains to be seen whether genetically modified crops will ever be grown in east Africa, but in the meantime scientists already are reporting some success with improving the drought tolerance of corn, known here as maize, the old-fashion way, [...]
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Number of comments: 0 I like BBC News, I really do. But I did spot this recently:  "Thousands of Vicks spray recalled" - shouldn't that be 'sprays'? The headline on the story currently reads "Procter & Gamble recalls 120,000 Vicks nasal sprays" [...]
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Number of comments: 2 Today's sociolinguistics lesson: How many words does journalism have for "snow"? After 13 years of plowing the sidewalks of 240 apartments on 20 acres in Detroit, Geraghty, 54, said he is grateful for any November without an accumulation of white stuff. Bzaaaaaaaaat! Sit down, Detroit Free Press. [...]
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Posted: December 01, 2009, 10:26am EST by fev
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Q: My ESL students are plaguing me for a hard-and-fast rule about using definite or indefinite articles with generalizations. For example, "A computer is a necessary part of modern life" or "The computer is a necessary part of modern life." Their first language is Russian, which has no articles. [...]
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Hello. Thanks for taking the time to visit. To your right you’ll see a drop down list of categories. That’s where you’ll find a selection of my work in radio and music, along with some print pieces from various reporting trips around the world.
If you’d like to know a little [...]
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The Maldives’ nearly 1,200 coral islands top out at less than eight feet above sea level. Climate forecasters predict they’ll be swamped by rising seas due to global warming within a century.
So the day before the country’s leaders staged an underwater cabinet meeting to draw attention to their plight, I [...]
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The British Ambassador to the United States, Sir Nigel Sheinwald, has written a blog post extolling the virtues of British (on screen) vampires. Here, in a quick turnaround story for PRI’s The World, I tackle the undead.
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Before there was Zen in the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, there was the original: Zen in the Art of Archery. The 1953 book chronicled the story of Eugen Herrigel, a German who traveled to Japan to learn Kyudo, the Way of the Bow. But you don?t have to go that [...]
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For most of us, Bulgarian folk singing means one thing ? and one group: Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares. The world-famous choir features about 20 women, singing intricate arrangements of traditional folk melodies. Well, in Brooklyn, I met four young Americans doing it their way.The story aired on PRI’s The [...]
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In the late 1920s, American capitalism inspired a German opera about a city built on greed ? ?Everything is defined by money. Everything can be bought, including human relations?. The opera?s creator decried capitalism. In the wake of the 1929 Wall Street Crash, Bertolt Brecht (and Kurt Weill) wrote about [...]
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Number of comments: 1 So I was reading a Robert Peston blog post on the BBC News website when I spotted what looked like an interesting article being promoted in the sidebar:  Out of curiosity, I clicked on the link [...]
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Philip Brasher, for the Pulitzer Center 
In some parts of the world, biotech companies have had to worry about keeping environmental activists out of their research plots. Companies can ill afford to have these big-money experiments ruined. Here in Kenya, scientists have a different worry - [...]
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I know you will be searching for holiday shopping stories this week. In addition to looking at the shoppers, consider the workers. In a CareerBuilder.com survey, one-third of the companies questioned said they "are likely to hire a seasonal worker for a full-time position." It is going to be a [...]
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Posted: November 30, 2009, 2:08pm EST
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Number of comments: 11 A Note to Eric Fingerhut: This Think Tank Gives Ohio Mostly C's in School Innovation The Center for American Progress state-by-state report card gives Ohio mostly C's in innovation. That can't be good news to Eric Fingerhut, chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents. On the other hand, [...]
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Q: Which is the proper form: "for free" or "for nothing"? A: They're both OK now, though "for free" apparently arose in the 1940s out of a confused conflation of "free" and "for nothing." The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (4th ed.) describes "for free" as [...]
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Number of comments: 0  Clearly, the horrible attack on police officers in Washington state was not an ambush. No accounts have the gunman hiding in the coffee bar waiting to spring out and shoot the officers. But a police spokesman used the word "ambush," and it's a more interesting [...]
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Posted: November 30, 2009, 1:31am EST by Bill
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Number of comments: 2 Tell us about those suspects, Fair 'n' Balanced Network: There are two suspects, one male and one black male, q13Fox.com reported. So in Fox World (you can attribute it to the local affiliate all you like, but when you put it on the foxnews.com Web site, you [...]
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Posted: November 29, 2009, 1:43pm EST by fev
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Number of comments: 0 Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Brysac, for the Pulitzer Center  God's Own Country Kochi (Cochin), November 27 --In the 1990?s, the wordsmiths in New Delhi struck upon ?Incredible India? as shorthand for the world?s most populous democracy. Not to be outdone, Kerala?s rulers rebranded their state [...]
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Number of comments: 0 Philip Brasher, for the Pulitzer Center 
What happens here in Kenya could change the way the world views genetically modified food. Whether it really makes a positive difference in the lives of Africans remains to be seen. Why is Kenya key? The first reason is [...]
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Number of comments: 2  You'd like to think some weary copy editor took up his (or her) dinted blade and went after this one out of a sheer sense of duty, fully expecting to be slapped down for his or her troubles: Google the words Charlie Crist and [...]
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Posted: November 29, 2009, 10:02am EST by fev
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Number of comments: 0 A Columbia University statistics professor is complaining about a copy editor who changed all of his "for example" usages to "e.g." Aside from adherence to a stylebook or to save every possible bit of space, I'm not sure why someone would do that but I wouldn't knock it on the [...]
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Posted: November 29, 2009, 9:58am EST by Pam
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Q: I believe ?push the envelope? is related to test flights. As a plane approaches Mach 1, the air envelops it and behaves denser. So, to ?push the envelope? originally meant to reach the point where the plane was pushing a lot of air that was enveloping it. I?m not [...]
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Number of comments: 0 Taking Joy in the Merit of Others 'Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own.' --Goethe. You can review earlier mentions of the German poet and mystic here and here. ![]() [...]
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