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- Tim Harford's top 10 undercover economics books (Guardian Unlimited)
Tim Harford's new book, The Logic of Life: Uncovering the new economics of everything, argues that the most unexpected people - oversexed teenagers, Las Vegas slot addicts, juvenile delinquents and even your boss - are rational, unconsciously weighing up risks and rewards and complying with economic logic. The author of The Undercover Economist, Harford is fond of unearthing economics in ...
- All Courant Blog Feed - Hartford Courant
Some people disapprove of Las Vegas, and they'll let you know about it. That's not going to stop me from going there. I like Las Vegas for the same reason I like Disney World. It's fun. Just as Sarah Palin has excited the Republican base, so has it ...
- Mental health problems are suffered in silence (Times of Malta)
Martin Ward: "Psychiatric nurses are the jewel in the clinical crown." Photo: Chris Sant Fournier. Leafing through a book of people's prayers at Mater Dei Hospital's chapel, Martin Ward came across entreaties to the Almighty to help loved ones or themselves deal with their "terrible depression".
- Who wrote 'Dreams From My Father'? - WorldNetDaily
For years, I had a portrait of Teddy Roosevelt hanging on my living room wall. I had painted it while in high school in New York at a salon overseen by Helen Farr Sloan, the widow of famed American painter John Sloan and herself a painter of no small ...
- Jessye Norman, Still a Diva Beyond the Classical Canon (Washington Post)
Jessye Norman has long ceased to be a soprano: She is now simply a Figure. And for some years now, Norman appears to have been searching for the best way to display that figure -- looking for some outlet that the conventional presentation formats of classical music do not offer.
- Obama’s “Guilty†Associations - WEBCommentary
Obama’s “Guilty†AssociationsWEBCommentary - 3 hours agoWright as his church when he flipped from atheist/agnostic to Christian and (2) quietly stayed a member for so many years, until Rev. ...
- Upcoming: Short List (Creative Loafing Atlanta)
Kingsized, Save Our Bookstore and more... August 15 Friday Wordsmiths Books doesn't mess around when it comes to reliably cool events. And its SAVE OUR BOOKSTORE fundraiser weekend is no different. Friday night's "Saving Bookstores Is AWESOME!!! Night of AWESOME!!!" features a reading by Jack Pendarvis, a performance from Atlanta indie rockers Sealions, and a silent robot auction – the ...
- Financial Titans, Listen Up - Tampa Tribune
Financial Titans, Listen UpTampa Tribune, FL - 16 hours agoHughes wrote more than 40 books of poetry during his life (he died in 1998), including "Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being. ...
- Live from Lake of the Torches: It's Saturday Night - PR Web (press release)
PR Web (press release)Live from Lake of the Torches: It's Saturday NightPR Web (press release), WA - 3 hours agoJackson was most famous for her appearances on Weekend Update with Dennis Miller in which she would recite poetry while doing headstands or backbends on the ...
- Catching up with the Modern Drunkard - Metromix
Catching up with the Modern DrunkardMetromix, IL - 12 minutes agoA drunken poetry jam. A drunken short-film festival. All kinds of things. It'll be a great time. It is. Everybody will have a great time. ...
- Obama vows to renew America's promise (Independent Online)
"We are here because we love this country too much, to let the next four years look like the last eight," says democrat Barack Obama.
- Hammershoi's decade of brilliance, before banality set in (International Herald Tribune)
For 10 dazzling years, the Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershoi seemed possessed by some inner vision that made him see the world around him through a luminous haze. Some of his poetic portraits and interiors are now on view at the Royal Academy until Sept. 7.
- Book Review: Noggle Stones - The Trades
The TradesBook Review: Noggle StonesThe Trades, OR - 57 minutes agoThe poetry and songs that always insinuate themselves into epic quests are often cute and always bearable (unlike some of the pages-long romantic dirges in ...
- The signs they are a-changin' - Ann Arbor News Blog
Sean Forbes of Royal Oak is an up and coming rock star who has alread caught the eye of rapper Eminem. The unusual thing about him, however, is that he's deaf. September 18, 2008: Hometownlife.com: In college, Forbes created a rough video to Eminem's ...
- Concert brings attention to child abuse (Quad-City Times)
The second annual Child Abuse Awareness Concert was held on Saturday at the River Music Experience’s Redstone Room.
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