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Globe and Mail - To heck with just setting records. Vancouver billionaire Jim Pattison has decided to buy the record book. Jim Pattison Entertainment Ltd. announced Friday that it has bought the storied Guiness World Records from Britain's HIT Entertainment Ltd. for ...

Chicago Sun-Times - TheatreworksUSA's musical revue If You Give a Mouse a Cookie & Other Story Books gives eight stories life on the stage at the Paramount Theatre, 23 E. Galena in west suburban Aurora, at 9:30 and 11:45 a.m. and 7 p.m. today. Tickets are $8 during the ...

Forbes - In addition to its 60-plus attractions, the Orlando-based company has publishing and broadcast divisions that oversee projects including the globally syndicated Believe It or Not! television show, best-selling books and the popular syndicated cartoon ...

Forbes - Pranab Bardhan is Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley, and Co-chair of the MacArthur Foundation-funded Network on the Effects of Inequality on Economic Performance. He has authored or edited a number of books, including ...

Boston Globe - The couple saw potential in the rough downtown, and while some locals scoffed, they started a used bookstore and coffee shop, then called Second Read Books & Coffee, in 1992. The business took off, and in 1999 started roasting coffee in a tidy brick ...

Forbes - Richard Wagner is an experienced Web designer and developer as well as author of several Web - related books on the underlying technologies of the Mobile Safari platform. These books include XSLT For Dummies , Creating Web Pages All - In - One Desk ...

Reuters - HONG KONG, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Bank of East Asia Ltd (0023.HK: Quote , Profile , Research ), Hong Kong's fifth-largest lender by assets, booked revaluation and impairment losses totalling HK$1.42 billion ($183 million), largely for its holdings in ...

Seattle Times - The National Book Critics Circle has issued its second list of books a lot of very well-read people hope you will read. Initially called the "most recommended" list, the NBCC has decided on a seasonal theme for this quarterly offering, namely "Good ...

Detroit Free Press - Because this weekend is focused on love, here are a couple offerings about teen romance and one about learning to love yourself. This title -- "The Year My Sister Got Lucky," by Aimee Friedman, (Scholastic, $16.99) -- could easily conjure up the ...

BBC UK News - The RNIB said few books were published in braille or large print, meaning pupils with sight loss were missing out both educationally and socially. Teachers and support staff spend long hours re-formatting text and pictures into suitable formats, it ...