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• Review: Sex, Drugs, & Gefilte Fish: The HEEB Storytelling Collection

  
  In Bed With Books — Authority: 418
  Edited by Shana Liebman ; Foreword by A.J. Jacobs Released by Hachette 26 Oct 2009 Review copy provided by publisher HEEB is a magazine focused on reporting Jewish-related information in a humorous style. The title is a reclaimation of the term "hebe," an ethnic slur. (You learn new things every day.) ...
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• Wild at the Edges: Inspiration from a Creative Life available now.

  
  Virginia A. Spiegel — Authority: 121
  Wild at the Edges:  Inspiration from a Creative Life evolved by keeping in mind the kind of book I like to take to bed with me (maybe with a glass of wine or a mug of hot chocolate) and peruse as the spirit moves me.  It’s 7×7″ and eighty pages long which is just the right size for reading in bed or throwing ...
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• Book Review: Democracy in Print

  
  The Lesser of Two Equals — Authority: 100
  Democracy in Print: The Best of The Progressive Magazine, 1909-2009 Edited by Matthew Rothschild Published May 1, 2009 University of Wisconsin Press 390 pp. ISBN 0-299-23224-7 Reviewed November 22, 2009 Out of all the casualties the economic crisis has been wreaking on the world (your humble narrator’s ...
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• an essay upon the essay upon the essay

  
  Baroque in Hackney — Authority: 467
  So… Zadie Smith is publishing – that is, she has written, so Hamish Hamilton is publishing – a book of essays, and thus has essayed to write an essay about it, which is in yesterday’s Guardian . Most of her essay is about the essays of one David Shields, whose book of essays on the essay (or “stupendous ...
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• TOURISM IN PAKISTAN, A FRENCH DOCTOR TAKES 6,000-MILE RIDE

  
  Wonders of Pakistan — Authority: 127
  Foxy Shahzadi, a 1974 Volkswagen Beetle painted with unique Pakistani truck art travels from Islamabad to Paris. Photograph: Tanveer Shahzad/Dawn newspaper In spite of terrorism there are still many rays of hope for tourism in Pakistan . One of th e kind now comes from a French doctor who got the novel idea of ...
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• India: Hungry for global power, or just plain hungry?

  
  Wonders of Pakistan — Authority: 127
  by Bruce Watson Since 2001, Goldman Sachs ( GS )  has been touting the wonders of the rapidly advancing BRIC countries — Brazil, Russia, India, and China — as the global economic powerhouses of the coming decades. Citigroup ( C ) recently jumped on the bandwagon with a ...
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• The words continue to pile up

  
  Stormwolf.com — Authority: 129
  Today’s number is 5, 432 and accounts for two chapters worth of words. Both chapters really got tough around the 2200 word mark, but finished strong and went longer than I would prefer. Still, they pushed the story forward and added some twists. This is the phase of a novel that I like. I get to toss new things in ...
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• Why I Garden

  
  Gardening With Confidence — Authority: 124
  Why I Garden Finishing up after a day in the garden, a glass of wine in hand, I sit hard on the back porch chase.   “Ah, I say a little more loudly than necessary.”   I thought the need to express myself mattered only to me.  It’s the sound of a good day in the garden.  At the sound, Lily perks up.  She ...
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• A Thing That Works

  
  Boston Celtics Basketball - Celtics news, rumors and analysis - CelticsHub.com — Authority: 637
  Back when the C’s played the Bobcats earlier this season, I noted a string of Rondo-based plays that started in an usual place: Along the left sideline, just across midcourt. That’s a tight spot far, far from the hoop. I wondered whether the C’s ran screen/rolls that far away as an on-the-fly response to ...
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• AWFJ Women On Film - The Week In Women, November 20, 2009 - MaryAnn Johanson

  
  Alliance of Women Film Journalists — Authority: 120
  The continued invisibility of women in Hollywood; a new part of our bodies we gals must learn to hate; Sex Slave: The Movie won’t be exploitive, the (male) director promises and INVISIBLE WOMEN. I’m amazed by my capacity to be continually surprised at how underrepresented or invisible women are not only ...
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• New blog…

  
  Heidi-Lore's Musings — Authority: 131
  Hey, I have started a new blog based on reviews. Things like books, tv, movies, music. If you have any desire, which you probably do not, come and take a look. http://heidilorereviews.wordpress.com/ Posted in Essays/Poetry/Thoughts
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• James Joyce, Twitter, Clockwork Orange and the Lokavipatti Sutta

  
  Enlightenment Ward — Authority: 459
  [Out the back-behind the scenery-an aside whispered-meaning an introduction to the events-and the answer to the always vital question,  "What if James Joyce, having read Anthony Burgess book Clockwork Orange, then wrote the Lokavipatti Sutta on Twitter?"  Too much time on my hands someone said. Not enuff. Not nearly ...
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• “Considering My Silence: On Not Writing in the Jungles of Papua, Indonesia” by Erik Campbell

  
  RATTLE: Poetry for the 21st Century — Authority: 129
  Erik Campbell CONSIDERING MY SILENCE: ON NOT WRITING IN THE JUNGLES OF PAPUA, INDONESIA “Between thought and expression there lies a lifetime.”        —Lou Reed In the jungle you have only bound horizons. For a time it seemed that the jungle had swallowed me Jonah-like and whole. I existed ...
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• The things you learn when you go back through old entries of abandoned communities.

  
  4thletter! — Authority: 564
  So, according to Gail Simone, Achilles is gay .  My reactions are as follows: 1.  But Zeus put him in charge of Amazon Island because he wanted the Amazons to lay down their weapons and become wives and mothers.  Is this one of those Greek irony deals, where the gods act like extreme bastards, but in an amusing ...
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• Classification Essay Outline Should be Road Map for Main Essay

  
  Custom Essay Blog From MasterPapers | Custom Research Papers and Term Papers — Authority: 125
  A classification essay outline must cover all the its components, in brief Any classification essay outline helps both the writer and the reader, as it provides brief explanation and exact location of the information given in the main essay body, with regard to a particular subtopic. Hence, students need to do a ...
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• Truth in Cinema; Does it Matter?: Peter Greenaway’s Rembrandt Experiment

  
  The Moving Arts Film Journal — Authority: 426
  In the last two years, Peter Greenaway has made two films about Rembrandt. More accurately, he’s made two versions of the same film about Rembrandt – a tableau-vivant period piece (”Nightwatching”) and an academic video essay (”Rembrandt’s J’Accuse”) – both of which come stocked with all the ...
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• TOURISM and the Extremist Threat

  
  Wonders of Pakistan — Authority: 127
  Despite finishing the Taliban, the core conservative ideology may survive and keep suffocating the country. Such an ideology will not allow the economy to grow in many new areas in which Pakistan has a lot of potential. Tourism is one such sector, but it needs an open society where everyone is welcome ...
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• Friday’s work is never done…

  
  Stormwolf.com — Authority: 129
  Friday was a good day, despite a late start. I got two chapters done for 5,052 words and I am pleased with them. I did some quick outlining of the next seven chapters or so, to make sure they fit together and I’m liking how that sequence will run. By Monday it should be done, in fact, and I should be at 68,000 words ...
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• Essay: Getting It Done - 11.20.09

  
  Jack Lessenberry Essays and Interviews — Authority: 466
  The legislature is still in session, and U of Ms annualeconomic forecast indicates weve got more hard times ahead. SeniorPolitical Analyst Jack Lessenberry has a suggestion as to how we might getbeyond this. Hear Audio Story     Heres the good news. Just in case you didnt think your legislature couldget ...
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• The Netbook: Six Months Later

  
  WebWorkerDaily — Authority: 690
  In an effort to curtail my disastrous gadget spending habits, I’ve decided to take a look at devices I’ve purchased with the stated intent of increasing my productivity, to see if intentions and reality reflect each other at all. Today, I’m turning my critical gaze on my netbook, which I picked up just over half ...
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