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When we think of plagues, we think of AIDS, Ebola, anthrax spores, and, of course, the Black Death. But in 1918 the Great Flu Epidemic killed an estimated 40 million people virtually overnight. If such a plague returned today, taking a comparable percentage of the U.S. population with it, 1.5 million Americans would die.In Flu, Gina Kolata, an acclaimed reporter for...
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Prisoner of the State

Premier Zhao Ziyang reveals the secret workings of China's government behind the Tiananmen massacre--and why he was deposed for trying to stop it.
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Glenn Beck's Common Sense

#1 New York Times bestselling author and popular radio and television host Glenn Beck revisits Thomas Paine's Common Sense.
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Chicago Tribune, July 4, 2009
...been a U.S. senator for 54 years, a reliable ally of presidents (Democratic ones, at least) from...
Irish Times, July 3, 2009
...a sad tale of a life ruined. Freya McClements The Post-American World And the Rise of the Rest...
Times Online, July 3, 2009
...novel The Private Lives of Pippa Lee now a feature film directed by Miller and starring Winona Ryder,...
The Australian, July 3, 2009
...editor-in-chief of The Australian, found him 'always engaging, always optimistic and always full of...
The Australian, July 3, 2009
...had a great sense of humour ... which he applied to nearly everything in life.' The Australian's...
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She Is Too Fond Of Books ..., June 17, 2009
...la la la” when J watches the “talking heads” on FOX-TV at night.  Recently J was watching as...
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...you had JavaScript activated. « New: Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United...
SF Signal, June 17, 2009
...The Always-awesome Cover Browser website has been update with new galleries of Stephen King Book...
Open Culture, June 17, 2009
About Dan Brown
...e-learning venture put together by Stanford, Oxford and Yale), we did a religion course that keyed...
Central Crime Zone, June 17, 2009
...Birth of the FBI, 1933-34 from Penguin is a great book. Hell, it inspired a movie and stars Johnny...
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    David. A. Nichols
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    David Talbot
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    Sasha Cagen
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    Joe Quint
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    C. David Heymann