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...Laura Kate O'Connell left her life of excitement as an overseas news correspondent to return to her Georgia hometown to raise her two young cousins. When Royce Lee, Laura Kate's attorney, supposedly commits suicide, too many pieces of evidence tell a different story. Her instincts as an i...

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... McGivern’s mouth eased open into a smile of sorts. “Well, I don’t keep up with the news too good, but I’ll check in with a cousin who lives here in... ...r was right. Bobby’s voice broke on her second name. “You’re not calling with bad news, are you?” “’Fraid so.” “What’s wrong?” Her mind c... ... “I’m fixin’ to.” It occurred to her that Bobby Tower hadn’t called to spread bad news for the thrill of it. Many times her aunt had been called ... ...aveled with before she left his cave camp in the green mountains. Her former World News colleagues didn’t know his fate because her successor in Gr... ...at the hell…?” The chief deputy stopped short, heaved in a breath, and said, “Bad news. It’s finally happened.” “Shut your fat mouth, boy,” Ma... ...d to apologize,” Laura Kate said, taking off her coat. Hannah grabbed a couple of magazines from a table and threw them at two cats curled in a cha...

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...y a call to a more generic “information service” for interactive weather and news. The development of this capability illustrates the relationships am... ...bscription could pursue a variety of pastimes 8 —reading an Associated Press news feed, chatting in typed sentences with other CompuServe subscribers ... ...ortant applications for online consumer services had already been in- vented—news, weather, bulletin boards, chat, e-mail, and the rudiments of shoppi... ...the network was not to offer a particular set of information or services like news or weather to customers, for which the network was necessary but inc... ...California–Berkeley computer science department described in a retrospective news account the fun of trying to puzzle out the problem and defeat the w... ...osoft T akes on the Free World, F, May 14, 2007, http://money .cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/05/28/100033867/index .htm?source ...

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... This renaissance will probably be aided by the gradual decline of print magazines and by a strengthening movement for free open source scholarly p... ...-scholarly material: personal reminiscences, correspondence, articles and news. Enter Scindex and its Academic Resource Channel. Established by a... ...ides: specially commissioned articles, fora, an annotated internet guide, news in context, downloads and shopping. The site enjoys healthy traffic an... ... and to a bunch of universities. Users like information, with emphasis on news and data about new products. But they do not like to shop on the net ... ...ontent. The late Pointcast, for instance, integrated advertising into its news broadcasts, continuously streamed to the user's screen, even when ina... ... by the experience of the meagre number of sites of venerable and leading newspapers that are on a subscription basis. Dow Jones (Wall Street Journa... ...onal Standard Book Number) by national agencies. Periodical publications (magazines, newsletters, bulletins) sport an ISSN (International Serial Sta... ...b.com/index.shtml http://www.pshares.org/ The circulation of print magazines has declined precipitously in the last 24 months. This dissoluti... ...to "send, save and share material from print publications". Participating magazines and newspapers print "WuliCodes" on their (physical) pages and W...

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...f gossip -information, influence and entertainment. Informative gossip exists for news trading and to provide participants with a "cognitive map" o... ... and amusement rather than to convince someone of a moral position or to probe for news or confirmation of news (p. 159). In another treatment of ... ...ity in the marketplace, have their own brand of loyalties -- columnists, tabloids, magazines. The consumption of gossip of all kinds may be analogo... ... sociological and demographic demarcations. Futher, it can be observed that when news is scarce, the gossip-monger can exact a higher price for his... ...ce, the gossip-monger can exact a higher price for his tales. When the market for news expands, the amount of gossip in circulation will proliferate... ...he inhabitants of the world had little to rely on other than rumored information. Newspapers, the telegraph, the radio are late inventions. Before ... ...ls or what are typically referred to simply as "media," include print (newspapers, magazines) and broadcast (radio, T.V.) media, while personal chan... ...Everyone is colored gray. Columnists -- and commentators in the more polysyllabic magazines -- concentrate on ideology. They do not care what a man...

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...ess this point because I want to challenge a kind of willed ignorance. Every news story refers to intellectual property as “arcane,” “technical,” or “... ...culture; you want beer and skittles and trashy delights as well as brilliant news re- porting, avant-garde theater, and shocking sculpture. You can se... ...gress’s vast, wonderful pudding of songs and pictures and films and books and magazines and newspapers, there is perhaps a hand- ful of raisins’ worth ... ...wonderful pudding of songs and pictures and films and books and magazines and newspapers, there is perhaps a hand- ful of raisins’ worth of works that ... ...a “tax on literacy” or a “tax on knowledge,” identical in its effects to the newspaper stamp taxes. 52 This was a time when mass literacy and mass edu... ... Alongside these accounts of the beneficiaries of the new property scheme run news stories about those who were not so fortunate, the commoners of the ...

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...ke this wonderful one, and put out with the family photographs and the new magazines. But it’s something not to be so big that I have to be buried.” “... ...er, and then, with his cup of tea, putting her in possession of the latest news—the documents signed an hour ago, de part et d’autre, and the telegram... ...ere, however briefly, find himself alone, alone with the handful of letters, news papers and other unopened missives, to which, during and since breakf... ...end was attached, and as to which he had made out contentedly that further news was to be obtained from a certain Mr. Gutermann Seuss of Brighton. It ... ...forty eight hours before resuming their journey; and Maggie’s reply to his news was a telegram from Rome, delivered to him at noon of their fourth day... ...had received from him in Paris after Mr. Verver had dispatched to Rome the news of their engagement. That telegram, that acceptance of the prospect pr...

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...4—Read to them when they are young. ........................................................... 66 5—Eat dinner together and discuss important world news events and ideas. .. 67 6—Teach them to fight their own battles. ........................................................ 68 SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR ............................................................................

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...here in the world in more than 30 years, and never in the United States.As news of the hijackings filtered through the FAA and the airlines, it does n... ...ts.They enabled the passengers to gain critical information, including the news that two aircraft had slammed into the World Trade Center. 77 At 9:39,... ...- west. Six, southwest of the White House, deviating away.” This startling news prompted the mission crew commander at NEADS to take immediate control... ...s it turned east, then south. 164 At 9:42, the Command Center learned from news reports that a plane had struck the Pentagon.The Command Center’s nati... ...— negative clearance to shoot” aircraft over the nation’s capital. 172 The news of a reported bomb on board United 93 spread quickly at NEADS.The air ... ...pants in the planes operation. For instance, he collected Western aviation magazines; tele- phone directories for American cities such as San Diego an...

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...e they built them two huts, one to lodge in, and the other to lay up their magazines and stores in; and the Spaniards having given them some corn for ... ...would find my way to England as well as I could. This was a heavy piece of news to my nephew, but there was no way to help it but to comply; so, in sh... ...behind, to go back alone. I confess I was greatly surprised with this good news, and had scarce power to speak to him for some time; but at last I sai... ...hat was to be done; and I asked my partner what he thought of the pilot’ s news, and whether it would suit with his affairs? He told me he would do ju... ...appeared in the way, about thirty miles beyond the city. This was very bad news to travellers: however, it was care- fully done of the governor, and w...

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...lworthy, of Somersetshire!” “Upon my word,” said she, “you tell me strange news; for I know Mr. Allworthy of Somersetshire very well, and I know he ha... ...asy a matter to determine. I hope, before she goes away, we shall have the news of a battle; for, if the Chevalier should get the better, she may gain... ... with him self (for he paid little attention to the opinion of his wife), news arrived that the rebels had given the duke the slip, and had got a day... ...en thousand French, my brave lad! I am going to tap away directly.” This news determined the opinion of the wise man, and he resolved to make his co... ... than anybody expects. A gentleman who was here just now brought excellent news; and perhaps some folks who have given other folks the slip may get to... ...ration, or meditating speeches for the House of Commons, or rather for the magazines. But the science of gaming is that which above all others employs...

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...the slightest distinction went for long unrecognised. The sixpenny popular magazines had still to deaden down the conception of what a short story mig... ...lay down flat in the canoe and spread this over me. Wonderful things these newspapers! I never read one through thoroughly before, but it’s odd what y... ... trouble 113 H.G . Wells about washing and dressing, and though I read my newspa- pers and the letters that came by the first post, I did not find th... ... a common eight-ounce gradu- ated medicine bottle, plugged with masticated newspaper. He gave it to Plattner at the end of the afternoon school. Four ... ...gs, polished boxes of instruments, in one place a large drawing covered by newspaper, and in another a prettily bound copy of News from Nowhere, a boo... ...r two older than he, though the thought never occurred to him. The loan of News from Nowhere was the be- ginning of a series of cross loans. Upon some...

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...all agreed it was come into Holland again. We had no such thing as printed newspapers in those days to spread rumours and reports of things, and to im... ...d gone into no measures for relief of the poor. The citizens had no public magazines or storehouses for corn or meal for the subsistence of the poor, ... ...though coarsely , till the begin- ning of September, when they had the bad news to hear, whether true or not, that the plague, which was very hot at W... ...eight parishes of Southwark. But it was the same thing abroad, for the bad news was gone over the whole world that the city of London was infected wit... ...one house to another, and ask how they did, and if they had heard the good news that the plague was abated. Some would return, when they said good new... ...s abated. Some would return, when they said good news, and ask, ‘What good news?’ and when they answered that the plague was abated and the bills de- ...

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...S the name of Walt Whitman has been a good deal bandied about in books and magazines. It has become familiar both in good and ill repute. His works ha... ...e a public nuisance. But by reversing it, he tells us something not unlike news; something that sounds quite freshly in words; and, if the reader be a... ...fellow-woman. More than one literary purist might identify him as a shoddy newspaper correspondent without the nec- essary faculty of style. And yet t... ...ks He was but twenty-two, and already all this was clear in his mind, when news reached Choshu that Commodore Perry was lying near to Yeddo. Here, the... ... Robert Louis Stevenson While the young Ronyin thus lay studying in Yeddo, news came of a Russian ship at Nangasaki. No time was to be lost. Sakuma co... ...t the land of France,” and some ship comes up the river: “the ship of good news.” At the door we find him yet again; this time embracing a messenger, ...

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...ns from beyond the sea; I grill in my blood over the silly rudeness of our newspaper articles; and I do not know where to look when I find myself 7 M... ...s in the least breath of time one of those 25 Memories and Portraits rich magazines of life on which we drew for our supply – when he who had first d... ...oor Editors? I cannot pity myself, to whom it was all pure gain. It was no news to me, but only the whole- some confirmation of my judgment, when the ... ... that they read, feeding themselves, for the rest, on the draff of country newspapers, and the very instructive but not very palatable pabulum of some...