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'Into the Blast' - On the Hunt for D.B. Cooper
Sat Nov 7, 2009 1:52 AM EST
If you're lucky in this business, some assignments are custom-made for you. Such was the case when Skipp Porteous, the head of Sherlock Investigations in New York City, asked me to help out with his probe into the 'D.B. Cooper' case.
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Cangenuity: The Tipping Point of Pop Academic Tomes
Fri Nov 6, 2009 4:26 PM EST
Dateline: 2000 With an engineering professor at the British University of Waterloo for a dad and a Jamaican psychotherapist for a mom, it's no wonder Malcolm Gladwell ended up looking like a cross between Albert Einstein and Bob Marley.
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"Googled" Author Ponders A Biography
Seeded on Fri Nov 6, 2009 2:34 PM EST ()
excerpt:" I'll get this out of the way right now: Ken Auletta is the best media writer around. In fact, nobody really comes close.
My Interview With New Yorker Writer Ken Auletta About His New Book, Googled: The End of The World As We Know It
Fri Nov 6, 2009 12:32 PM EST
I have been reading Ken Auletta's pieces for many years, usually in the New Yorker, where he is its resident media critic, but also a few of his books.
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Book Review: Googled; The Great Disruption The 'Google wave has crashed into entire industries,' changing business plans and affecting profits.
Seeded on Thu Nov 5, 2009 2:16 PM EST (Wall Street Journal)
excerpt:"Google's announcement last week that it would offer free turn-by-turn navigation software prompted a nosedive in the stocks of Garmin and other navigation device makers.
Bipartisan Attack on International Humanitarian Law
Seeded on Thu Nov 5, 2009 9:59 AM EST (Common Dreams)
(This deformed ideology, Zionism, has infected the already deformed, two party class system, into moving further towards criminality, and proto fascism.
Contest: AN ALTAR IN THE WORLD by Barbara Brown Taylor
Seeded on Wed Nov 4, 2009 6:26 PM EST (GoodBooksInBadTimes.wordpress.com)
Share your endorsement for acclaimed writer and theologian, Barbara Brown Taylor author of An Altar in the World and Leaving Church. Submit your thoughts for a chance to win a copy of Altar in the World and more.
23 CIA Agents Convicted in Italy for Kidnapping Egyptian Cleric
Seeded on Wed Nov 4, 2009 5:13 PM EST (AlterNet.org)
MILAN — An Italian judge Wednesday convicted 23 US and two Italian secret agents for the CIA's kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in 2003 under the covert "extraordinary rendition" programme.
Media critic pens book on ubiquitous Google
Seeded on Wed Nov 4, 2009 5:06 PM EST (post-gazette.com)
excerpt:"Can we remember a world before Google? Better yet: Do we want to?
New cookbooks preach gospel of no-knead breads---{No-knead breads the hottest thing since you-know-what}
Seeded on Wed Nov 4, 2009 2:08 PM EST (TheTimesHearld.com)
For physician Jeffrey Hertzberg and baker Zoe Francois, the journey to no-knead bread began innocently enough.
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