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Weekend Reading: Cave Trolls

John Bauer's 1915 rendering of Outside's cave trolls. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Welcome to the 20th edition of the Weekend Reading! Obviously, the column existed before my arrival but 20 editions is a…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 22, 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1092 words)

SIRI RISING: The Inside Story Of Siri's Origins -- And Why She Could Overshadow The iPhone

The world got its first inkling of the quick wit that would make Apple’s Siri an icon during a packed press conference held before an auditorium of tech elite. "Who are you?" an Apple executive asked…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 22, 2013
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5555 words)

Rising sea level a threat to East

“Cities in the hot spot, like Norfolk, New York, and Boston, already experience damaging floods during relatively low-intensity storms,” said Asbury Sallenger, a Geological Survey…
PUBLISHED: June 25, 2012
LENGTH: 1 minutes (335 words)

Frank's Story at Runner's World

By painful but unequivocal choice, Frank Shorter possesses no photographs of the late Dr. Samuel Shorter, even though, of the 11 children in the Shorter familyfive boys, six girlsFrank, the second…
AUTHOR:John Brant
PUBLISHED: Aug. 31, 2011
LENGTH: 37 minutes (9257 words)
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