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Tokyo's weirdest museums

Here are some of the Japanese capital's weirdest museums, which are hard to find in your ordinary guidebook.

Book Review: "The Girl Who Fell From the Sky" by Heidi W. Durrow

"This stunning debut novel finds the beauty – and confusion – in a young life touched by tragedy." - Heller McAlpin, Christian Science Monitor

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling accused of plagiarizing from children's wizard book

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 wave

RIO DE JANEIRO — Carnival's raucous street parties flooded Rio with drum-beating local revelers and sweaty foreigners escaping snowbound cities.

Ancient tribal language becomes extinct as last speaker dies

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

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.

Pulitzer Committee Says National Enquirer 'Ineligible' for Top Journalism Prize

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 scholars

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.

Political Spycraft Seen in Nixon Papers

The New York Times 01/12/2010

Jeffrey Deitch to Head L.A. Museum of Contemporary Art

CANDACE JACKSON The Wall Street Journal 01/11/2010
Political Spycraft Seen in Nixon Papers

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.

Jeffrey Deitch to Head L.A. Museum of Contemporary Art

The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art is expected to announce later today that Manhattan gallery director Jeffrey Deitch will take over as director, according to people close to the matter.


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