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Tokyo's weirdest museums 03/02/2010 | |
 Christie's auction house said Wednesday that it would put the Pablo Picasso portrait "Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto," also known as "The Absinthe Drinker" up for sale. |  Here are some of the Japanese capital's weirdest museums, which are hard to find in your ordinary guidebook. |
 "This stunning debut novel finds the beauty – and confusion – in a young life touched by tragedy." - Heller McAlpin, Christian Science Monitor |  J.K. Rowling, the world’s richest author, is accused of stealing ideas for "Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire" from another British author's children’s book. Rowling was added as a defendant to an ongoing legal claim filed against her publisher for alleged copyright infringement by the estate of the late Adrian Jacobs. |
Carnival erupts in Rio amid scorching heat waveBRADLEY BROOKS AP 02/13/2010 | Ancient tribal language becomes extinct as last speaker diesJonathan Watts The Guardian 02/05/2010 |
 RIO DE JANEIRO — Carnival's raucous street parties flooded Rio with drum-beating local revelers and sweaty foreigners escaping snowbound cities. |  The last speaker of an ancient tribal language has died in the Andaman Islands, breaking a 65,000-year link to one of the world's oldest cultures. |
'People's History' author, historian Howard Zinn dead at 87 The New York Times 01/28/2010 | Pulitzer Committee Says National Enquirer 'Ineligible' for Top Journalism PrizeRUSSELL GOLDMAN ABC News 01/23/2010 |
 Howard Zinn, an author, teacher and political activist whose book “A People’s History of the United States” became a million-selling leftist alternative to mainstream texts, died Wednesday in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 87 and lived in Auburndale, Mass. |  The administrator of the Pulitzer Prize board said today that the National Enquirer is "ineligible" for the nation's top journalism prize, dashing the flamboyant tabloid's hopes of taking the award for breaking a story about John Edwards' mistress and love child. |
Google named 'word of the decade' by American speech scholarsAndrew Hough Telegraph 01/14/2010 | Political Spycraft Seen in Nixon Papers The New York Times 01/12/2010 |
 Google's dominance of the internet has spread to the world of linguistics with the verb spawned from the brand name being voted word of the decade. |  WASHINGTON (AP) -- In newly released papers from his presidency, Richard Nixon directs a purge of Kennedy-era modern art -- ''these little uglies'' -- orders hostile journalists to be frozen out and fusses over White House guest lists to make sure political opponents don't make it in. |
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