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However, she is also a young woman who has spent most of her life trapped in a tower, reading books and interacting only with her monstrous guardian, Songbird, and is experiencing Columbia for the first time.
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Kindle Paperwhite is the most-advanced e-reader ever constructed with 62% more pixels and 25% increased contrast, a patented built-in front light for reading in all lighting conditions, extra-long battery life, and a thin and light design.
ENGADGET: Kindle Fire HD 8.9 ships today, 4G version to follow next week
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Ismaiel also tells his own story: of life in a remote village and hunger for reading, of student years in Teheran and political activism, and then later the acceptance of exile.
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We believe a plain reading of the terms in the life insurance contract signifies that the policy should have terminated and been converted to extended term insurance on several occasions before 2008.
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"Saving Justice" should be required reading in our nation's law schools, as a real-life demonstration that we are a government of laws and not of men.
WSJ: Book Review: Saving Justice
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When he attended college in Cairo, he undertook a study of Jewish life there, associating with Jews and reading the works of Zionists such as Theodor Herzl.
CNN: Struggle for Peace: Yasser Arafat
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Albert Wojnilower, senior adviser to Monitor Clipper Partners, which manages private-equity investments, predicts enormous increases in financial risks for everyone in his "Life Without Treasury Securities, " a 16-page essay that is must reading on Wall Street these days.
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Lumbly makes you believe that this Johnny Appleseed of reading and writing would return to slavery from a free life up North and risk mutilation in order to continue his teaching.
NEWYORKER: Nightjohn
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In his fiction, the ratio of smart to stupid is far more advantageous than it is in real life, but this is a minor complaint, gladly passed over for the pleasure of reading pages of implausibly brilliant speech.
NEWYORKER: Noble Savages
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The world is full of examples of people becoming interested in real-life skills or historical events because they learned about it through a video game (or by reading or watching TV).
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