It takes the average reader just seven hours to read the final book in Suzanne Collins’s “Hunger Games” trilogy on the Kobo e-reader—about 57 pages an hour. Nearly 18,000 Kindle readers have highlighted the same line from the second book in the series: “Because sometimes things happen to people and they’re not equipped to deal …
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They sent customary congratulations from round the world – the Iranians and the Emiratis, the US, the British and Hamas. Even Israel said it “respected the outcome”. William Hague, the foreign secretary, was almost effusive. “I congratulate the Egyptian people for their commitment to the democratic process,” he said. The US called on the government …
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It began with a frustrated blogpost by a distinguished mathematician. Tim Gowers and his colleagues had been grumbling among themselves for several years about the rising costs of academic journals. They, like many other academics, were upset that the work produced by their peers, and funded largely by taxpayers, sat behind the paywalls of private …
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The story on this photo is that the rebel groups were searching for Libya’s ex-leader Muammar Gaddafi. They found him alive in a sewer (photo below) and he immediately said “don’t shoot.” Ten minutes later Al-Jazeera is broadcasting an image of him beaten, bloody, and dead. After which celebrations reverberated throughout the city with this young …
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The story on this photo is that the rebel groups were searching for Libya’s ex-leader Muammar Gaddafi. They found him alive in a sewer (photo below) and he immediately said “don’t shoot.” Ten minutes later Al-Jazeera is broadcasting an image of him beaten, bloody, and dead. After which celebrations reverberated throughout the city with this young …
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Even during the recession growth is surging with markets up 164%. If this trend continues we may finally be able to impact our food system.