FairPrice kicks off annual textbook donation drive with 11 collection points across S’pore
The collected textbooks will be distributed at Tzu Chi Humanistic Youth Centre on Dec 7 and 8. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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Cookbook stores are feeding a growing appetite for community hubs
What stood out most, however, was how it used a back kitchen for demonstrations ... But compared with the world’s largest ...
British Museum receives largest donation in its history with Chinese ceramics collection
The donation makes the museum's Chinese ceramics collection the largest outside China, with 10,000 items displayed in a ...
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BUSINESS MONDAY: Spotlight on Witch Slapped, LLC.—brewing community in Pittsfield
This "haven for all things metaphysical and mystical" is a shop and learning center in one, offering classes, workshops, ...
Despite leaner times, Wichita stays the course on its public libraries
Past budget cuts led to closures and the consolidation of library services, but as libraries continue to evolve, city leaders ...
Make robots our translators and we risk cultural disaster
When Frank Wynne’s translation of Michel Houellebecq’s 1998 novel Atomised was published, in 2000, a reader complained to ...
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Book Stores in San Diego
Barnes & Noble is the largest bookstore in the United States with 633 retail stores in all 50 states. What is the best online bookstore? Amazon (combined with its used-books acquisition AbeBooks) ...
DOC NYC documentary film festival showcases real life on screen
America's largest nonfiction film festival, featuring more than 200 features and shorts, returns to New York City theaters ...
The world’s largest internet archive is under siege — and fighting back
Hackers struck the Internet Archive, leaking millions of users’s data and causing founder Brewster Kahle to take a sprawling library of online history offline.
Oklahoma schools superintendent mandates students watch announcement of new religious department
EDMOND, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma’s education superintendent has sent an email to public school superintendents requiring them to ...
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Film academy acquires ‘Pulp Fiction’ script
The organization has also acquired personal collections of filmmakers Paul Verhoeven, Barbara Kopple, Nicole Holofcener, ...
State Regulators Know Health Insurance Directories Are Full of Wrong Information. They’re Doing Little to Fix It.
State agencies say they’re holding insurers accountable for errors in provider directories. But ProPublica found that the actual actions taken so far do not match the regulators’ rhetoric.