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Syrians Risk Lives for Secret Library
When a place has been besieged for years and hunger stalks the streets, you might think that people would have little interest in books. But enthusiasts ...
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Inuit Hunters Losing Ability to Read Surroundings
The small island of Igloolik, in northern Canada is a bewildering place in the winter. The average temperature hovers at about 20 degrees below zero, ...
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How C.S. Lewis Critiqued and Improved Tolkien's Work
In June of 1938, J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings author) wrote a letter to his editor Stanley Unwin explaining why he was behind ...
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Scientist Exclaims the Wonder of a Tree's Roots
Science writer Hope Jahren shares an interesting fact about plants, especially how a tiny seed starts to put down roots—the most essential thing ...
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Young Artist Sees People in Whole New Light
In his book My Name Is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok's main character is an awakening artist, beginning to see the world with a different perspective. The ...
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Your Heart Always Follows Your Money
Suppose you buy shares of General Motors. What happens? You suddenly develop interest in GM. You check the financial pages. You see a magazine article ...
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Japanese Word for 'Golden Repair'
There is a Japanese word, kintsukuroi, that means "golden repair." It is the art of restoring broken pottery with gold so the fractures are ...
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The Phrase 'A Mile Wide and an Inch Deep'
In 1889, American journalist and humorist Edgar Nye introduced the phrase "A mile wide and an inch deep." He was referring to a river found ...
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The Actor Who Played Over 3,000 Roles
Milton Lichtman (also known as Jan Leighton) died at the age of eighty-seven. For over 30 years Lichtman's primary claim to fame was appearing in ...
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Study Reveals the Upside of Stress
In 1975, Salvatore Maddi, a psychologist at the University of Chicago, began to study the long-term impact of stress on employees at the Illinois Bell ...
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