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  • Three Surefire Ways To Come Up With Compelling Literature Dissertation Topics
    By: Donna Santos | - There is almost a non ending debate when one wants to come up with an interesting title for dissertation writing. As you know it is a high level academic paper, therefore, the topic should be something that is unique and intriguing but that is not commonly observed because students seems to be not much aware of the high standards of thesis writing.

    You can write on anything to everything when it comes to literature dissertation topics because no doubt this subject has a deep history ...

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  • Ray Davies Tickets : Davies Is A Long-time Enthusiast Of British Music Hall
    By: Amanda Harrison | - Davies' compositions for The Kinks' early recordings of 1964-65 ranged from chiming, melodic beat music to the more distinctive and influential proto-metal, protopunk, powerchord-based rock and roll which first brought the band to prominence. Indeed, it was the latter style that characterized their first two major hits, "You Really Got Me" and "All Day and All of the Night", as well as the B-side "I Need You" and the minor hit "Till the End of the Day".

    However, by the mid-to-late ...

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  • Dibakar Banerjee - Bollywood Director
    By: Karishma Roy | - Dibakar Banerjee was born in 1969 in Delhi and was brought up there. He studied at Bal Bharati Public School at Delhi. He was from a basic middle class family. He joined the National Institute of Design (NID) at Ahmedabad to study visual communications and graphic design.

    He left the institute two and a half years later and returned to Delhi. Seven months later, he worked as a trainee under corporate audio visual filmmaker Sam Mathews. Dibakar plunged into copy writing, as a caree ...

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  • Order Comedy Writing Secrets Book On-line
    By: Barry | - Get your own copy of Comedy Writing Secrets by Mel Helitzer HERE. Comedy is obtainable in an exceedingly variety of elementary designs and each comedian usually concentrates concerning the specific design that suits them. That's to not say they cannot or don't dabble at intervals the opposite designs, however sometimes a selected design is thus suited to some comedian - and that they get thus utilised to it, that they opt for to not alter. Additionally, their market expects a particular style of ...
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  • Hound Comics, Inc. Announces Hound Kids Division
    By: Amy DiLeo | - New York, New York, June 2, 2011 -- Hound Comics CEOs William Brimstone Kucmierowski and Marcello Carnevali have announced extensive plans of branching into mainstream publishing including but not limited to childrens books and a satirical cookbook based on popular character, Luscious. We have made a major strategic addition to the umbrella of Hound enterprises by launching our Hound Kids Division says Brimstone. He continued with, Essentially we are looking to expand int ...
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  • Monty Python's Life Of Brian
    By: Steve Exeter | - I was first exposed to Monty Python whilst I was at school; I got one of their albums Monty Python's Previous Record out of the local library and was instantly hooked. However, it would be over a decade before I got the opportunity to see the entire 4 seasons of the ground breaking Monty Python's Flying Circus series in total and even then I had to shell out a small fortune to import the 14 disc DVD 'Mega Set' that was only available from the Arts & Entertainment television network in the US at ...
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  • America! Land Of Pride And Plenty!
    By: Roger Himes | - We should have a great deal of pride in this fantastic nation we have. Being a lawyer, I'm even proud of our judicial system, even with all the faults it has. The law and justice often make strange bedfellows, as the saying goes. Sometimes justice does not seem to prevail, and is instead slaughtered by rules and procedures. But it is still a better-than-average system.

    To compare America with any other nation in the world, we have to give up an awful lot. We'd have to beg ...

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  • Network: 35th Anniversary Blu-ray
    By: Steve Exeter | - At this year's Academy Awards Aaron Sorkin said in his acceptance speech, "It's impossible to describe what it feels like to be handed the same award that was given to Paddy Chayefsky 35 years ago for another movie with 'network' in the title." It was his first Oscar win for adapting The Social Network and he was referring to the unexpectedly prescient satire Network directed by Sidney Lumet in 1976.

    You don't have to look very far for Chayefsky's influence on Sorkin's writing, n ...

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  • How To Write A Love Poem?
    By: krystynaiz532 | - Step 1: Dont write a love poem
    Love is one of the most common themes of poetry, which makes it one of the most difficult to write about. Nearly everything to be said and written about love has already been said and written, many times over. The greatest masters of lyric and poetry have tackled this theme again and again. But dont be discouraged. You can still write a good, unique, original love poem. But first you must push the generic idea of the love poem out of your head. Fo ...

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  • Britain's Top Comics Unite For Red Nose Day 2011
    By: Natalie Stone | - There's only one place to be on Friday March 18th, and that's in front of the box, as Red Nose Day 2011 kicks off with a host of Britain's top crop of comedy stars including Lenny Henry, Michael McIntyre and Graham Norton.

    The entertainers will be charged with keeping the BBC studio audience and millions of viewers appraised of the plethora of charity efforts that ordinary people across the UK have put their hearts into for this incredible cause.
    Others hosting the evening wil ...

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  • Blog Writing - Finding The Right "person"
    By: Enzo F. Cesario | - Every blogger has a different approach to things. Some talk about politics, others about their personal fiction projects. Some adopt a more serious tone, while others go for satire or outright comedy. Certain blogs might be more confrontational than others, and the topics covered can range from niche to popular appeal, often within the same blog.

    There are a host of articles and sites covering advice on how to address various topics, but one area that doesn't get a lot of attention ...

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  • Thrillers Books: Serves Huge Excitement
    By: Jacko Liver | -
    Are you really bored by reading regular books or magazines? Are you that kind of person who reads some of the very selective books only? If 'yes' then it is the time to taste new flavor contents served by different sort of magazines in which thriller books are at the top.

    Most of the thrillers books are the work of fiction. The imaginative contents are written in such an adventurous manners that readers could absorbed completely. The write ups written by the author are embe ...

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  • Woody Allen
    By: Steve Exeter | - Woody Allen has been writing and directing a new film project each a year for the last half a century, he has also acted in many of them, although in recent years he usually takes a smaller role, providing the comic relief or simply doesn't appear at all. Even from behind the camera you know it's a Woody Allen movie from the opening black and white titles, traditional jazz soundtrack and first lines of dialogue brimming with neurosis and one-liners filled with existential angst about balancing ...
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  • Peter Bagge And The Alt Culture Migration
    By: VacationRentalPeople | - There seemed to be some sort of cultural migration happening at the end of the eighties, it seemed to happen as the alternative cartoonist Peter Bagge moved from one coast to the other. Travelling from the New York on the East, all the way over to Seattle on the West Coast.

    Bagge was an avid chronicler of the music scenes within his work, often being called in to design covers for certain bands in the scene in which he had ingratiated himself with. All the covers designed bore his d ...

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  • Four Types Of Blogs And How To Use Them
    By: Enzo F. Cesario | - Blogging clearly has arrived and is here to stay, according to the buzzword-slinging set. It's the "next big thing" or the "wave of the future" - even a "revolution." Still, most of the people commenting on the blogging trend aren't sure exactly what it is, how it works or even what the different kinds of blogs are. Blogging already has taken a myriad of forms. Born when dial-up was still the standard, it came of age during the rise of broadband and now its text-based roots are giving way to pod ...
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  • Movie Blog - Lesser Known Movie Pioneers
    By: Raffy Chan | - The movie industry has certainly come a long way from its humble beginnings in 1826 when Joseph Plateua and Simon von Stampfer invented a novelty toy that created the illusion of moving pictures on a spinning disk. At present, we have access to the technology of 3D animation, digital sound effects, CG (Computer Graphics) animation, and high definition images taken by equally high definition cameras. Yes, these advancements have made the motion picture one of the greatest past times, but it would ...
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  • Cut The Crap - Avoiding The Trap Of Crap Content
    By: Enzo F. Cesario | - People are a notoriously self-interested lot. They avoid activities that don't benefit them, skip events that bore them and reject content that doesn't interest them in some way. They aren't going to go out of their way to read up on an article simply because it has all the information the author thinks is vital and important if they personally feel that article is a waste of their time. Indeed, nothing is a surer waste of someone's time than a crappy, poorly assembled article. A piece of copy c ...
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  • Who Invents The Printing, China, Netherlands Or Germany?
    By: Mark Liu | - The type matrix show in the Olympic opening ceremony demonstrated the miraculous charming of the china printing to the whole world, but in the western, some people think that the German goldsmith Guttenberg is the father of the printing, who invents the printing, China, Netherlands or Germany?
    The grand printing dance show greatly admired the people over the world and they wondered at it. But regarding this, the Netherlands people Schneider had his own idea. He wrote a letter to protest th ...

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  • Facts About Satire Female Author
    By: Brainwork | - Not only does it criticize just an individual but it is a wit weapon for criticizing a society that is not liked. A satire female writer writes against something which is not encouraged or not liked by him or her. One can become a perfect satire female authoronly if one has a complete knowledge of literary forms such as burlesque, parody, exaggeration, comparison, analogy, combination and double entendre which are essential elements of a satire. The origin of the word satire is from a Latin phra ...
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  • Becoming A Satire Female Author
    By: Brainwork | - Satire is an artistic form in which an individuals vices, folly, abuses, or shortcomings are made to stand out to criticize by using irony, ridicule, or other methods, sometimes with an intent to bring about improvement. Even though satire is usually used to bring out the humorous side, many also use it for constructive social criticism, using wit as a weapon. A satire female writer must know that the most common feature of satire is strong irony or sarcasm. This irony or sarcasm is mainly us ...
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  • Aamir Khan"€™s Peepli Live A Magnum Opus
    By: Srinjan Bhowmick | - The perfectionist is back in action. Aamir Khan hits back to Bollywood with Peepli Live. After the colossal success of 3 Idiots, Aamir Khan is back with yet another satirical movie.

    Peepli Live is a fresh concept introduced in Bollywood. The movie is a satire on the farmers' suicides and subsequent media and political response.

    The plot goes like this, on the eve of national elections in the Indian village of Peepli, two poor farmers, Natha and Budhia, face losing thei ...

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  • Dork By Sidin Vaduku
    By: Prasoon Kumar | - Are you interested in knowing what does everyman look like? The secret is out, he looks like Robin Einstein Varghese. He is the omnipresent character (the engineering management types, you already know them, right?) created by Sidin Vaduku. Robin takes up the career just because he wants to have a good career, and makes the money that should rightfully go to the creative types (this is a biased opinion from a writer).

    Let McKinsey Wait

    The protagonist believes Mc ...

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  • Wwii As Told By Heller's Catch-22 And Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five
    By: Paul Thomson | - Everyone is talking about the new HBO miniseries The Pacific. While it is well scripted, brilliantly performed, and visually realistic, what really has critics' attention is its jumbled storyline. Herein, they say, lies the series' real strength. So why is it that when we have no overarching narrative, we get bad marks in creative writing, but when Tom Hanks does it, he gets his own miniseries?

    Historically, war stories have been told from a zoomed-out perspective that focuses on major ev ...

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  • Brand Management - Four Options For Focusing Your Newsletter
    By: Enzo F. Cesario | - Recently, our blog took a look at the basics of newsletter writing. We covered some material that we've stressed time and time again: make sure the content is well written, pay attention to presentation, and tie it into the brand without going by rote. This is part of our message that quality always matters, and that every venture put forward should return to the same basic principles. Building on these lessons, this article highlights specific ways that a newsletter can be turned from a seeming ...
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  • Advice That's Not Always Nice
    By: Steve Yeich | - For this week's article we have a guest columnist, who may return periodically, assuming I'm not arrested or burned in effigy as a result of the advice she gives out. Please welcome Darnfunnyonline's new advice columnist, "Dear Crabby".

    Now for the questions from our readers:

    Dear Crabby,

    I was recently on a flight to see an old, dear friend and while going through airport security they had me stand in one of those scanning machines that essentially allows ...

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  • I Love Italian Travel - Emilia-romagna Carnevale Season
    By: Levi Reiss | - Emilia-Romagna is generally considered to be the gastronomic capital of Italy; you better believe that it has a lot of competition. Its regional capital and largest city is Bologna, which brings a very ungastronomic sausage to mind. The city of Cento, population 35 thousand, is located 15 miles (24 kilometers) northwest of Bologna. It is home to the historic Cento Carnival of Europe, which runs on five consecutive Sundays attracting over 300,000 people. Since 1993 the Cento Carnival has been twi ...
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  • Reasons Why Shakespeare Is Called The Bard
    By: Brian Jones | - William Shakespeare is also referred to as 'The Bard'. The term bard originally meant a friend who likes writing poems indeed Shakespeare gained many friends through his plays.

    1. These days "The Bard" is used to call a revered and famous poet. One of the most revered poets of all time is William Shakespeare. This is the first answer to the question why is Shakespeare known as the Bard. Before William Shakespeare became "The Bard", the poet that was given that title was Robert Bur ...

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  • Learning Standup Comedy For Today's Tough Crowd
    By: Fran Civile | - Are you thinking of becoming a standup comic because you've repeatedly been told that you're naturally very funny... you really enjoy the way people think you're funny... and actually it's some kind of a power trip to keep a group of people in stitches hanging on to your next words!

    Making a living doing a regular comedy routine 2 or 3 hours a day, earning applause and laughter while traveling to places around the country hardly seems like 'work' to you... You might be dreaming of g ...

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  • Salman Rushdie - Parody In Midnight Children
    By: marciano guerrero | - In 1981, Salman Rushdie published Midnight Children, a novel that one can say belongs to the genre of magic realism. Though the genre has been totally dominated by Latin American writers -Garcia Marquez, Juan Rulfo, Isabel Allende, and Laura Esquivel- the Indian author Rushdie holds his own.

    Though far from being a work immersed in social realism alone, Midnight Children, contains a great deal of parody and satire of India-but all done with artistry.

    All in all we can s ...

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  • Putting Music In Your Wedding: Classic Wedding Songs
    By: Timothy Spencer | - According to www2.stetson.edu a song becomes a classic when it is instantly recognized by a large number of people. Secondly, it should evoke a universal idea, a distinct mood or an event. Lastly, it must exemplify and belong to a sub-genre and retain these characteristics beyond its initial popularity.

    For purposes of clarity, the first definition above is correct but still seems vague, so forums.kickassclassical.com approaches the definition with fresh insight.

    Their ...

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  • How To Get Published
    By: Patrika Vaughn | - Ever wonder how a writer becomes a published author? Or how a book makes it to the top? You see the same authors over and over on Best Seller lists. They're not necessarily the best writers: their success has more to do with today's publishing realities.

    Publishing is a whole new ball game today and the old rules don't apply:
    Major publishing houses are being gobbled up by international cartels
    Bookstores are giving way to superstores
    Accountants now decide who get ...

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  • Before You Write
    By: Patrika Vaughn | - Writing a book is a lot like getting married. It is intensely personal, it calls for a big commitment, and it requires a sustained effort. And like marriage, it carries no guarantee of success. Books and marriages often fail for the same reasons. The most common reason is that the writer doesnt know enough about the four essential components of a successful book. It may surprise you to know that the first and most important of these components is the self.

    1) self -- Many writ ...

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  • A History Of Clowns
    By: Stephen Daniels | - Almost everyone has had fun with a clown, from laughing at their stunts during the circus to having a balloon animal made for them at a birthday party, but most people don't realize the long and rich history of clowns.

    Clowns started out as court jesters thousands of years ago. The first known account of a court jester was in 2500 BC in ancient Egypt. Records of court jesters found in China date back through the 1800s BC, and the majority of Native American tribes also had clowns ...

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  • Article Writer - Do You Need One?
    By: Enzo F. Cesario | - Content is king. Your web presence needs content that your audience will be interested in, period. People go to websites for the content they provide. They read web comics for amusement, visit consumer advocacy sites to inform themselves, visit political blogs to find causes to champion - in short, people visit websites to find things out. Whether it's for shopping or simple erudition, a large part of the web process involves reading, and the people doing the reading want to look through som ...
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  • Well Written Sentence Openers In Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho
    By: marciano guerrero | - What can one say about a fine writer -Bret Easton Ellis- who chooses a vicious and violent theme? To me it seems like a waste of talent. But to each his own! Why lament the fact that Flaubert -another superb writer- chose to write about infidelity, adultery, the provinces, and a dunce of a heroine? Yet the fact remains that while Madame Bovary is a masterpiece regardless of its theme, American Psycho is a minor work.

    American Psycho is a scary book for whoever reads it, be the reade ...

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  • Alliteration In The Hands Of Master Writers
    By: marciano guerrero | -

    Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
    Tongue-twister

    When writers combine stressed syllables that begin with the same consonant sound, they can achieve not only euphonious sounds, but also mark certain beats and cadence within the narrative's rhythm. For example:

    Noise, nausea, and loneliness-but that's nothing really new.

    The 'n' consonant adds a very distinctive rhythm to the text, adding a halting cadence to the grim, negat ...

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  • E Rice Burroughs, Tarzan Of The Apes - A Protoype
    By: marciano guerrero | -




    To re-read a well written book is not only pleasant but also inspiring; especially to writers who are always searching for methods to improve their prose.

    While the oeuvre of popular authors such as John O'Hara, Ernest Hemingway, and Norman Mailer, Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, John Fowles -who wrote so much in their lifetimes-- are by now buried in the dunes of oblivion, E Rice Burroughs' Tarzan remains vibrant and beloved. But ...

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  • Edith Wharton's The House Of Mirth - 100 Years Later
    By: marciano guerrero | - "Selden paused in surprise. In the afternoon rush of the Grand Central Station, his eyes had been refreshed by the sight of Miss Lily Bart."

    With these words Edith Wharton begins Lily and Selden's tale of woe. Since 1905, the year of publication of The House of Mirth this tale has been the true depiction of the plight of the 19th century American women: branded a lesser gender, financially dependent, and socially victimized

    How things have changed in one hundred years!< ...

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  • Will Your Book Sell?
    By: Patrika Vaughn | - The Kindly, Caring Literary Agent is probably extinct.
    Todays agents are more likely to treat you like a paychecks than like the sensitive creative person you are. You wont get your hand held when youre blue. You wont have your manuscript lovingly edited. Even worse than this cold, business-like treatment, youre unlikely to get your works placed with a publisher by an agent today if you are a budding author.
    Today: 40% wont read manuscripts b ...

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  • 6 Ways To Make Your Copy Upbeat And Fun
    By: Nupur Das | - You've probably read enough articles, news stories, press releases and books to distinguish different tones and moods in the writing style used by the copywriter or author. Simply by changing a few words, adding punctuation and pauses for effect and using a different way to separate related topics, a writer is able to change how the reader feels about the write-up. So you think you're too serious, businesslike and 'heavy'? Here are ways you can make your copy upbeat and fun:

    Don' ...

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  • Dear Sir Or Madam,
    By: Leslie Eskildsen | - This is your realtor writing to you to request a few trifling favors in order to sell your house.Please be advised that, although this are merely requests, it may behoove you to acquiesce to them, for the sake of your homes future sale.

    1. When I say that your house will probably sell for such-and-such a price, please believe me.I am not doing this to conclude a long-standing vendetta the gods have against you, nor am I trying to curtail my commission on this sale. ...

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  • Do You Like Comedies? Check This Out!
    By: Kristi Ambrose | - The NBC line up has come under close scrutiny for its performances recently. NBC TV show schedule has 37 current shows which have created quite a stir amongst competing rival networks. Two widely acclaimed shows are the welcoming "Lipstick Jungle" and the infamous "30 Rock." "Lipstick Jungle" stars three of the most beautiful actresses in Hollywood.

    In "Lipstick Jungle" this sexy drama follows three powerful females who live life at the top of their game, making it through every ...

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  • A Review Of Black Snow By Mikhail Bulgakov
    By: Philip Spires | - Black Snow is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov. This apparent platitude is full of contradiction. The book is perhaps better described as an autobiographical episode, with Bulgakov renamed as the books central character, Maxudov. Its also a satire in which the characters are precise, exact and often vicious caricatures of Bulgakovs colleagues and acquaintances in the between-the-wars Moscow Arts Theatre, including the legendary Stanislawsky. In some ways, Black Snow is a history of Bulgakov ...
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  • Where Does Time Go And How Can I Stop It?
    By: Knight Pierce Hirst | - As a child I thought my grandmother was a bit strange because she complained about how fast time went. Fast? It was forever until cookie time. That was then. Now time passes so fast I feel wind burn.

    I have to prioritize. I have to learn to say no because no one will say it for me. I have to stop worrying about things that probably won't happen - skip to the worst case scenario, figure out how to handle it and let go.

    A friend handles her worries by writing them ...

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  • How Nearly Finished Got Lucky
    By: Robyn Cohen | - Lying next to Richard Branson is terrific. There's a buzz. Everyone wants to touch you. Wow, people gasp, you and Richard Branson. Amazing. Who would have thought of the two of you together you from Cape Town and Mr B, the global entrepreneur.

    Indeed. Before you get too excited, let me explain. I am talking about my little book, Nearly Finished a guide to home renovation (Double Storey, $16) which for a few weeks, lay on the shelf (see, I told you not to get excited) next ...

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  • Sun Will Only Burn For 5 Billion More Years; Humans Express Concern
    By: Tom Attea | - We are often reminded that the sun will only shine in a way that can support life way out here on the earth for only about another five billion years. Sensing the eventuality of the cataclysm, were easily inclined to express our concern, along with our sympathetic distress for those far-off folks who will be standing on the earth when old Father Sol begins to turn down the heat.

    It seems to us, however, that we have far more immediate concerns, for example, if we can last, in t ...

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  • Puppets -- Adding Humor And Laughter To Your Life
    By: Susan Chiang | - Kids love to play with puppets as it allows them to set free their creative imagination. Puppets can bring great joy not only to kids, but also to adults, all over the world.

    Puppets were first introduced to the world of entertainment thousands of years ago. It originated from Greece as the Greeks then were known to be fond of theatrical presentations. Though they enjoyed theater, they found supporting the actors financially rather expensive, so that they turned to the use of pupp ...

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