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Writer, omnivorous reader, gadabout, spendy, brainy and rarely bored.
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The crash of 2008 continues to reverberate loudly nationwidedestroying jobs, bankrupting businesses, and displacing homeowners. But already, it has... »
Posted by: Deidre 10 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
M y father was a child of the Great Depression. Born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1921 to Italian immigrant parents, he experienced the economic ...
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The Associated Press: Washington painting in NY gets new frame, touchup »
Posted by: Deidre 10 months, 2 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment
This picture provided by the Metropolitan Museum of Art shows the painting " Washington Crossing the Delaware" by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze. It is one of the ...
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Two circuses, an art exhibit and other events celebrate the spectacle of live performances under the big top »
Posted by: Deidre 10 months, 2 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment
T he acrobats are lining up at Camden Yards . The elephants will gather at 1st Mariner Arena . Clowns can be found at the Baltimore Museum ...
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Practicing ancient arts of ancestors - The Boston Globe »
Posted by: Deidre 10 months, 2 weeks ago in Family
Inside a Lexington home, the fierce yet fluid twang of a traditional Chinese instrument, called a guzheng, resounds as a young girl prepares for a ...
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Spains Adria unveils food of tomorrow »
Posted by: Deidre 10 months, 2 weeks ago in Style
TOKYO (AFP) — Spanish chef Ferran Adria, the father of so-called molecular gastronomy, has always been ahead of his time and this week he was the ...
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Games Are Not Art, Are They? - washingtonpost.com »
Posted by: Deidre 10 months, 2 weeks ago in News
There's this on-again, off-again argument within the intelligentsia as to whether games should be placed on the same pedestal as books, movies, music, and ...
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Cocaine cheaper than lager and wine as drug price falls by half »
Posted by: JamesMarcus 10 months, 2 weeks ago in News
The UK Home Office has admitted that the street price of both cocaine and heroin has fallen by nearly half in the last ten years ...
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Malicious insider attacks to rise »
Posted by: imanadmin 10 months, 3 weeks ago in News
Software giant Microsoft warns that the economic downturn will lead to an increase in security breaches by insiders.
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Amazon Kindle 2: It's NOT too expensive | Crave - CNET »
Posted by: Deidre 10 months, 3 weeks ago in News
Let me start by saying that I agree with you on one thing: $359 is a lot of money. I just don't agree that ...
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Robert Mugabe binges on champagne and caviar as Zimbabwe starves »
Posted by: Deidre 10 months, 3 weeks ago in News
It is the 85th birthday of President Mugabe this month and the zealots of his Zanu (PF) party are determined that it should be an ...
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Rare portraits of Burns sons to go on display »
Posted by: Deidre 10 months, 3 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment
Portraits of two of Robert Burns’ s sons are to be shown in public for the
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Shepard Fairey: OBEY my lawyers »
Posted by: Deidre 10 months, 3 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment
What do you do if you're a street artist turned marketing phenom who uses other people's images when someone uses one of your ...
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Barber Shop Set to Be Black History Museum »
Posted by: Deidre 10 months, 3 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment
Three years after Southampton Town purchased a former barber shop to eventually become the African-American Museum of the East End, the museum’ s founders are ...
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Former Microsoft exec grows global literacy effort - Seattle- msnbc.com »
Posted by: Deidre 10 months, 3 weeks ago in News
SYDNEY, Australia - This morning, 250 million children around the world didn't go to school. And that's something that must change says the one ...
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Tried-and-true is suddenly back in fashion »
Posted by: Deidre 10 months, 3 weeks ago in Style
Jamie Roark used to spend big bucks on Christian Dior undergarments. Now she's happy with Hanes, which makes a two-pack of panties that sells ...
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