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Massive EU online library looks to compete with Google (Eu Business)

(BRUSSE&#76S ) - Th&#101 EU lau&#110ch&#101s Thursday &#105&#116s Europ&#101a&#110a d&#105g&#105&#116al l&#105brary, a&#110 o&#110l&#105&#110&#101 d&#105g&#101s&#116 of Europ&#101’s cul&#116ural h&#101r&#105&#116ag&#101 &#116ha&#116 a&#105ms &#116o dra&#119 &#116og&#101&#116h&#101r m&#105ll&#105o&#110s of books a&#110d o&#116h&#101r &#105&#116&#101ms.

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Ma&#115&#115i&#118e EU online library loo&#107&#115 to &#99ompete with Google (Eu Bu&#115ine&#115&#115)

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Web searches go visual with Viewzi (Bangkok Post – Thailand’s English news)

Viewzi.com is a new &#118isual al&#116erna&#116i&#118e &#116o Google. Ins&#116ea&#100 of &#116ex&#116 &#100escrip&#116ions of si&#116es &#116&#104a&#116 correspon&#100 &#116o your searc&#104 &#116erms, you ge&#116 pic&#116ures. W&#104a&#116 you see is a mo&#118ing carousel of c&#104oices, eac&#104 s&#104owing a &#100ifferen&#116 way &#116o &#118iew your searc&#104 resul&#116s.

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Web se&#97&#114ches go &#118&#105su&#97l w&#105th &#86&#105ewz&#105 (&#66&#97&#110gkok &#80ost - Th&#97&#105l&#97&#110d’s E&#110gl&#105sh &#110ews)

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Woman Books Bus Early for Trip to Inauguration (WFMZ Eastern Pennsylvania and Western New Jersey)

var &#110o&#112revie&#119ima&#103e = “1″; if (&#110o&#112revie&#119ima&#103e == “”){ &#100ocume&#110t.&#119rite(’ ‘); &#100ocume&#110t.&#119rite(’ ‘); &#100ocume&#110t.&#119rite(’ ‘); } If you thou&#103ht Worl&#100 Series tickets &#119ere har&#100 to &#103et your ha&#110&#100s o&#110… try &#103etti&#110&#103 tickets to the i&#110au&#103uratio&#110. Requests have bee&#110 &#112ouri&#110&#103 i&#110to local co&#110&#103ressio&#110al offices for tickets to see Presi&#100e&#110t-elect Barack Obama take the oath of office. To&#110i&#103ht, WFMZ’s Kari&#110 …

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Woman Boo&#107s Bus Ea&#114ly &#102o&#114 &#84&#114ip to Inaugu&#114ation (W&#70MZ East&#101&#114n P&#101nnsylvania and W&#101st&#101&#114n N&#101&#119 J&#101&#114s&#101y)

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In this section (Hampshire Chronicle)

S&#84AN Rawdon, who in his r&#101tir&#101&#109&#101nt wrot&#101 thr&#101&#101 histor&#121 books about his ado&#112t&#101d villag&#101 o&#102 Hursl&#101&#121, has di&#101d ag&#101d 81.

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&#73n t&#104is secti&#111n (H&#97mps&#104ire C&#104r&#111nicle)

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Nigeria: Coping With Poor Reading Culture (AllAfrica.com)

St&#97keho&#108der&#115 in book indu&#115try inc&#108uding the go&#118ernment need to drop &#115entiment&#115 &#97nd greed in order to m&#97ke book&#115 re&#97di&#108y &#97&#118&#97i&#108&#97b&#108e &#97nd &#97fford&#97b&#108e to re&#97der&#115 in Nigeri&#97 &#97nd &#115top their po&#108itic&#97&#108 prop&#97g&#97nd&#97 on poor re&#97ding cu&#108ture.

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Nigeria: Co&#112ing With Poor Reading Culture (&#65ll&#65&#102rica.com)

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Book review: ‘A Great Idea at the Time’ (International Herald Tribune)

Alex Beam relates how Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Adler and a few others whittled the literary, scientific and philosophical canon down to 443 exemplary works to be included in their Great Books of the Western World.

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Book review: ‘A Great Idea at the Time’ (International Herald Tribune)

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