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...veritable mecca for booklovers, the Harvard Coop (1400 Mass. Ave), the Square's largest bookstore, offers three floors of paperbacks and hardcovers. Unless your professor forgot to place an order by the deadline, the Coop's third floor is the place to go for textbooks. Reasonably priced, the one pitfall of outfitting your academic needs at the Coop is that books must be returned within three weeks or not at all. For lighter reading, try the second floor's collection of paperbacks and the first floor for bestsellers and oversized picture books...
...browsing and adventures in dustiness, venture into dimly-lit used bookstores and wander their narrow aisles in search of treasure. Even if The Book Case (42 Church St.) doesn't have specifically what you're looking for, it's a must for used book fanatics. Boasting the Square's largest selection of used books, it has a basement filled with used volumes and don't miss the sections which are tucked into the little nooks, lining the wall of the main room. On the ground floor, the store has a good selection of funky post cards and junky gifts...
...Harvard Cooperative Society, which has stores in Cambridge and Boston, was established in 1882 and is the oldest and largest cooperative in the United States...
Churches remain the largest single recipient of giving: $37.7 billion a year is raised by religious organizations and agencies. Corporations, with their stockholders to worry about, give far less (about $4 billion last year), but in the past decade some 1,600 U.S. companies have pledged to give 2% to 10% of their pretax profits to charity...
...with the Mouse had bought, secretly and at the fire-sale price of roughly $200 an acre, 43 sq. mi. of Orlando ruburbs (about twice the size of Manhattan and more than 100 times the area of California's Disneyland) on which to build the world's largest theme park. Florida's Governor predicted that the scheme would "bring a new world of entertainment, pleasure and economic development to the state of Florida...