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...more than 18,000 respondents, found that nearly 47% of all adults in the U.S. read a work of fiction not required for work or school in 2008, with the number of Americans who read a book growing by 3.5 million. (Of course, it should be noted that the general population has grown by 19 million since 2002, meaning that far more people in the U.S. opted not to read a book last year). A new question attempted to break the fiction genre down by subcategories - mystery, thriller, romance, science fiction, etc. - but with limited success: 46.3% of respondents prefer...
...greatest leadoff hitter of all-time. And I'm not sure that there's a close second." - Billy Beane, Oakland A's general manager, on his former teammate (they played together on the '89 championship team), MLB.com...
...mothers in Makrides' study have been eager to comply with the fish-oil supplementation program. "Women of premature babies tend to be more motivated than the general public to take action because they have a sick, premature baby, and anything they feel they can do to help this baby, they will do," she says. And that includes taking a half dozen fish oil capsules...
...Sunday Times—the British paper—to claim that two Google searches generate as much carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle for a cup of tea.Wissner-Gross later denied that this claim was included in his study, which he said was about web-usage in general, not Google in particular.Google is combating the Sunday Times’ article, which declared that “Google is secretive about its energy consumption and carbon footprint,” and that it “generates high levels of C02.” According to the publication, one Google...
Ogden, currently a partner at the WilmerHale law firm in Washington, D.C., was selected to be deputy attorney general by the President-elect. He had previously served in the Department of Justice and the Department of Defense under the Clinton administration. Ogden, if confirmed, would manage the daily operations of the department...