(AP) Italian writer Roberto Saviano and Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho have been named co-winners of the $75,000 Olof Palme Prize for their efforts to expose criminal networks despite great...
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By Alexandra Alter (WSJ) Enhanced e-books—which have multimedia features such as audio, video, pop-up graphics, 3-D images and animation—are being touted as the next frontier in the digital-books landscape....
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(io9) Let’s meet 10 of history’s most influential scientific and technological visionaries, along with their drugs of choice. 9. Francis Crick — LSD Francis Crick — of the DNA-structure...
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(University of Missouri-Columbia) Traditional media, such as newspapers and television news, require readers and viewers to intentionally seek out news by picking up a newspaper or turning on the...
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By Karen E. Klein (Bloomberg) From selling typewriters in his native Ontario, Canada, in the 1970s to wrestling with Microsoft (MSFT) in the 1990s as the co-founder and chief...
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In this excerpt from a 1967 story in ‘Cheetah’ magazine, Wilson tries to show the Beach Boys are just as hip as the Beatles Comment4 By JULES SIEGEL November 3,...
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His obituary has been placed in the public domain on the Gutenberg site (which is currently giving an access forbidden error message) . I corresponded with him occasionally and...
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The definition of neurosis is very simple. If we agree that 2+2 = 4 is reality, then the psychotic says 2+2 = apples don’t like bananas, or something equally...
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On a smog-dark day early in 1972, a bright neon whirlpool of color and sound and movement circulated through and around the former church and convent of Our Lady...
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Former Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean called the Fox News coverage of Shirley Sherrod “absolutely racist” in an appearance on Fox News Sunday. “They had an obligation to...
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As it happens, this awesome controversy was discussed for about 30 seconds on newsroom-l (new window) when one of the list’s few conservatives (not a journalist, but some guy...
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By Sarah Lacy (TechCrunch.com) I’ll give Google this much: They’re taking a bad situation and making something good out of it, both from a human and business point of...
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