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Teacher Sells Ads On Tests To Cover Printing Costs
CONSUMERIST COMMENTS :Left to fend for himself after budget cuts, His tests cost over $500 a year to print, but this year he only got $316, one calculus teacher resorted to selling ads on quizzes and tests to cover his printing costs. $10 for quizzes, $20 for tests, and $30 for a final... READ MORE
The Curated Bookshelf
NEW YORK MAGAZINE :Independent bookstores are the sober equivalent of your local bar: Not only does everyone know your name, they know what you like... READ MORE
VS Naipaul offered juju revenge
TIMESONLINE :THE Nobel prize-winning author VS Naipaul was recently offered the chance by an African witch doctor to put a curse on his biographers, according to his wife, Nadira... READ MORE
Manhattan in Autumn at the Anne Loftus Playground
SCIENCE BLOGS :As I've already mentioned, I am having a rough time right now, but I love photography, so I decided that I should view NYC through a shutter as a way to deal with my labile mood state... READ MORE
Eco-Friendly Christmas Trees
TREE HUGGING FAMILY :I know Thanksgiving was just yesterday but many people who celebrate Christmas start thinking about trees right away now... READ MORE
A Year in Reading 2008
THE MILLIONS :The distractions of a good book have been in high demand this year. A quiet corner and a transporting story offered a reprieve from relentless campaign news not to mention cheap entertainment for the many feeling a sudden impulse for thriftiness... READ MORE
Whatever happened to the Turner Prize?
THE INDEPENDENT :From Chris Ofili's elephant dung painting to Tracey Emin's infamous unmade bed, the Turner Prize has consistently provoked controversy and criticism. Until now... READ MORE
Jack Spicer believed his poems were dictated from the spirit world
WWW.BOOKFORUM.COM :In the summer of 1965, the poet Robin Blaser discovered his friend Jack Spicer lying comatose in the poverty ward at San Francisco General. The forty-year-old Spicer had passed out drunk in the elevator of his North Beach flat a few days before and was wheeled in... READ MORE
What Is Eco-Poetry
HARRIET :As globalization draws us together and industrialization and human population pressures take their toll on natural habitats, as species of plants and animals flicker and are snuffed from the earth... READ MORE
Harajuku in peril?
THE JAPAN TIMES: ALL STORIES :As a dedicated follower of Japanese pop culture and the coauthor of a book on Japanese teen fashion, I confess that I'm getting a bit concerned about the direction in which the Harajuku district is headed these days... READ MORE