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A Taste Of Heaven in the Andersonville neighborhood sounds like heaven on earth for a childfree curmudgeo-woman like me. Naturally, the proprietor is now the most hated man on the Chicago North Side. Basically, he has a firmly worded little sign in the shop that states that “children of all ages have to use their [...]

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BBC NEWS | UK | Education | Illiteracy ‘hinders world’s poor’
The regions found to have the lowest levels of literacy are sub-Saharan Africa, south and west Asia and the Arab states, where only 60% of the population are able to read and write.
Women remain more at risk of illiteracy, with only 88 women worldwide [...]

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Oooweee! One of our favorite TV shows has been Boing Boinged! It’s almost as if BB wasn’t really familiar with the show, which is weird because it’s totally on topic for them and totally aimed at their dream demographic: smart, slightly geeky people who build cool shit and blow stuff up in the name of [...]

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It’s the day after an off-year election, and all the news outlets have filed their stories about how it’s a victory for Democrats and it’s a referendum against Bush (especially in the case of the Virginia governor’s race, where Bush had done a campaign stop hours before). Governator Ahnuld got shut out on his pet [...]

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