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Bank of Maharashtra Tenders
glyncrasto
by glyncrasto  8-18-2008   
 BoM tenders
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Barack Obama is Mr Darcy --Maureen Dowd
readforpleasure
by readforpleasure  8-5-2008    1
 Dowd reports that some women won't vote for Obama because he's skinny, some because he seems haughty. That's no sillier than voting for him because he resembles Jane Austen's most popular hero, Mr Darcy. I'm not wild about the train of thought that says women vote based on fictional heroes. However, it may be an uncomfortable truth, and not only about women. Much of voter opinion is based on looks, style, and media hype--not content. I do give Dowd credit for making an unusual analogy. The "Pride & Prejudice" title fits the current politics in some ways, and Dowd correctly points out that the success of the Austen novel rests of changing the views of *both* sides.
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Salon on Stephanie Meyer's "Twilight"
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by readforpleasure  7-30-2008   
 A perceptive article. It's interesting that Miller mentions the placeholder theory, which holds that writing a flat character lets the reader insert him or herself into the role. That's an old theory and dated in some ways, but it's possible that teenagers do at times insert themselves into stories, imagining themselves as central characters.
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Embrion na glusec
emil50
by emil50  7-15-2008   
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Iberdrola Renewables Reverse RFP
CohoctonWindWatch
by CohoctonWindWatch  5-29-2008   
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What is an RFP?What is an RFP?
bellapria
by bellapria  4-14-2008   
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Ken Rundel
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by ucqwik  2-16-2008   
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Spooky...
mooner-one
by mooner-one  12-24-2007   
 ...but kinda cute!
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Fluorescent Cats
vickybaranwal
by vickybaranwal  12-15-2007   
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Franken-Pets: A total loss of perspective
ouyangwulong
by ouyangwulong  12-14-2007   
 I'm going to have to start by saying I love people, and I love animals, I even love people who own animals. I've had pets myself, and I'm not attacking you personally when I say... THIS IS TOTAL INSANITY!!!! People who are obsessed with anthropomorphizing domesticated animals are really starting to freak me out. (Consider the wing-nuts who care for feral cat colonies even though they decimate the local ecosystem, and in Texas, kill off endangered species!) At a certain point we have to consider the situation realistically and draw some boundries, because it seems like our love could very well qualify as animal cruelty. After all, isn't treating an animal like a human, and placing upon it the expectations and burden of fictive human emotional relationship really unfair to the animal? Look at what we've done to them in the name of our narcissistic obsession! We are destroying them to satisfy our own emotional needs. Don't be cruel to your cat: be realistic.
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Glowing Cats & Carnivorous Fungus: Good Week for Evil Geniuses
ouyangwulong
by ouyangwulong  12-14-2007    5
 Uh... should we be afraid of all this? I've been checking all the scriptures I can find, and glowing cats and meat-eating fungi aren't listed as signs of some impending apocalypse, but it really really seems like they should be.
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Scientists clone glow-in the-dark cats
pokkets
by pokkets  12-13-2007    2
 The cats glow due to a gene that is a marker gene, that can show a gene transplant can be possible, before more functional genes are used. The treatments and methods can then also be extended to other species including humans.
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Clone cats glow in the dark!
caissie_tab
by caissie_tab  12-13-2007    2
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cats that glow in the dark- clone
wildcat
by wildcat  12-13-2007   
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South Koreans clone cats that glow in the dark
LisbethJ
by LisbethJ  12-12-2007   
 On the bright side (no pun intended) you could use the cat as a flashlight during a power outage!
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Image: Glow in the dark kittens (yes real kittens)
BitDrifter
by BitDrifter  12-12-2007   
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Women & Literature: Call for Papers -River Walk Journal, 11/07
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by readforpleasure  11-7-2007   
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Advertising in library books -BBC, 11/07
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by readforpleasure  11-7-2007   
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pricing a project
ldpedersen
by ldpedersen  9-27-2007   
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3 Books on Male Sexuality... and Splooge --Chronicle, 9/07
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by readforpleasure  9-23-2007   
 Reviewer Camille Paglia has been called a "feminist that other feminists love to hate," a "post-feminist feminist," and one of the world's top 100 intellectuals. She describes three very different books on male sexuality, with thoughtful criticisms of each. I quoted from "Sperm Counts: Overcome by Man's Most Precious Fluid" by Lisa Jean Moore, simply because it's a funny passage. The other two books are Murat Aydemir's "Images of Bliss: Ejaculation, Masculinity, Meaning" and Angus McLaren's "Impotence: A Cultural History".
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Boobs and Books --Scotsman.com, 9/07
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by readforpleasure  9-23-2007   
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"Girly" book covers discourage boys--Times, 9/07
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by readforpleasure  9-22-2007   
 The article highlights a couple of books with plots that should appeal to boys. It's a pity they're given bright pink covers. Surely that increases boys' resistance to reading, and especially their resistance to reading books with female protagonists. (For more on that, see: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1494932,00.html and: http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/09/why-women-read-more-than-men-or-not.html
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Patron Removes Kids' Sex Book From Library--PW, 9/07
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by readforpleasure  9-22-2007   
 Karkos could have challenged the book through a formal process within the library and its board--and thus allowed the community to participate in deciding the fate of the book. Instead, she took it into her own hands to decide for everyone what is moral and what books should be available. By holding every copy of the book, she prevents anyone else from reading it and forming their own opinions. Regardless of the content of the book, Karkos' actions fly in the face of civil society and its crucial community aspects.
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15th-Century Fanfic, Time Mag. 8/07
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by readforpleasure  9-22-2007    1
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Junot Díaz on Genre & Literary Fiction, 9/07
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by readforpleasure  9-21-2007   
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East African Views on Sci Fi, 9/07
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by readforpleasure  9-21-2007   
 I'm intrigued with the developing world's view of western sci fi. Our technology-centric culture, and our western mythologies, must sound foreign in more ways than one. (Note that this article is actually from Kenya, one of the more developed African nations, with strong universities and reasonable internet access.)
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What Are Libraries For?--Bookworm, 9/07
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by readforpleasure  9-16-2007   
 Found on Classical Bookworm.
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L'Engle: Too Complex for Grown-ups--Salon, 9/07
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by readforpleasure  9-11-2007   
 Isn't that the ultimate sign of mastery: "L'Engle wrote with the complexity of the best adult authors and poets, only she did so in a way that a sixth grader could understand."
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Bitter author diatribe--Huffington Post, 9/07
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by readforpleasure  9-10-2007   
 An interesting mix of some painful truths... and some plain ol' bittercakes.
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Bob WhEarley, newspaper editor & romance novelist--Houston Chron, 9/07
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by readforpleasure  9-8-2007   
 Whearley wrote five romances in 1986-88: http://www.romancewiki.com/Fran_Earley
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International Literacy Day--8 Sept. 2007
readforpleasure
by readforpleasure  9-8-2007    1
 The following authors are working with UNESCO’s "Writers for Literacy" initiative. You can download their essays in the "Alphabet of Hope" anthology linked above. Margaret Atwood, Paul Auster, Philippe Claudel, Paulo Coelho, Philippe Delerm, Fatou Diome, Chahdortt Djavann, Nadine Gordimer, Amitav Gosh, Marc Levy, Alberto Manguel, Anna Moi, Scott Momaday, Toni Morrison, Erik Orsenna, Gisèle Pineau, El Tayeb Salih, Francisco Jose Sionil, Wole Soyinka, Amy Tan, Miklos Vamos, Abdourahman A. Waberi, Wei Wei, Banana Yoshimoto.
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High school reading lists updating rapidly--8/07 Christian Science Monitor
readforpleasure
by readforpleasure  9-1-2007    1
 One quote in the article disturbed me. A college student said "Summer reading is a good thing if and only if there's a context for it. I don't like the idea of just handing us a list. If you say, 'Read these books,' tell us why." Context is a great thing. But there's a lot of value in simply reading for pleasure, reading for its own sake, reading for exposure to different ideas and styles.
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Lake Tahoe Packages & Specials
juliesmith
by juliesmith  7-24-2007   
 Specials and packages for Lake Tahoe lodging, golf and ski vacations, weddings and accommodations.
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5 authors are 70% of fiction sales -Wash. Post, Jul 2007
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by readforpleasure  7-19-2007   
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Lucy Snyder on women writers & prejudice
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by readforpleasure  7-14-2007   
 Check out her full response.
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What Book Are You?
readforpleasure
by readforpleasure  7-14-2007   
 OK, so it may not be totally accurate. You get what you pay for. And it's fun reading the interpretations of the books' "personalities". Found by the Classical Bookworm: http://arb0rv1tae.typepad.com/bookworm/
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Kids Shouldn't Read Fiction -NYTimes Jul 2007
readforpleasure
by readforpleasure  7-13-2007   
 Bull! (a) Reading fiction has benefits other than information. (b) Kids get plenty of practice reading for information on the internet. (c) Studies show that if kids don't do enjoyable reading in school, they stop reading as soon as they're out of school.
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Harry Potter doesn't increase kids' reading -NYTimes Jul 2007
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by readforpleasure  7-13-2007   
 Kids read if their parents read. And most adults don't read. I found some horrifying statistics on how little people read--and how reading dwindles as people age. Adults actually read less than kids do. Great example, huh? http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/01/how-much-do-we-read.html
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New Wave of Hipster Librarians -NYTimes, Jul 2007
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by readforpleasure  7-12-2007   
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Best New Paranormal Romance -RfP, Jul 2007
readforpleasure
by readforpleasure  7-8-2007   
 Several great stories and a couple of duds.
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