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Confronting Slavery in the Deep North: A filmmaker uncovers her family's past as a Northern slave-trading dynasty -- An interesting read. If not for that Imus feature on MSN, I would not have known of theroot dot com.

taken from pgdudda

Book list meme; The Big Read says the average adult has read only six of these.

Edit: Apparently there are more rules than I initially understood:

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Strike through the ones you read and didn't like.

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I know, I have a lot of good literature ahead of me. Also, I have only about four or five books of the Old Testament left. And about Little Women: when I read it at age 11, I loved it. When reread at age 19, not so much.

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Boy tackled by Colo. mayor gets restraining order

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Fossil of most primitive 4-legged creature found

Scientists think big impact caused two-faced Mars

Study: Mars Had Drizzle and Dew

The one bad thing Spike Lee did for me

Now that I'm reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X, I hear it in Denzel Washington's voice.