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Baltimore Sun - Practitioners like Marts say the Harry Potter books have made more people curious about Wicca. But they have also helped to spread misconceptions that the religion is all about magic spells and pointy hats. Indeed, after he won the lottery, many ...

Boston Globe - In the cuisine of kids' books, the tooth fairy story is a smoothie - sweet, fun, rewarding, even comforting. But adding a lot of serious ingredients may only make it hard to swallow. Chris Abouzeid is the author of "Anatopsis" and lives in Somerville

CNBC - Both Sainsbury and Morrison have attracted speculation about possible bids in part because of their rich property assets. Funding Costs The Sainsbury board opened its books to Delta Two after it proposed a 600 pence-a-share cash offer, which was above ...

Forbes - ... the world's biggest bank, rattled investors with the announcement that it expects additional writedowns of 8-11 billion dollars to reflect the declining value of the roughly 55 billion dollars in US subprime-related securities it holds on its books. ...

Detroit Free Press - He has gone through all the Five Books of Moses (Genesis, Ugly Numbers, The Dudes Are On To Me, Livin' to Cuss and Refusal to Exodus) and has emerged unscathed. Yeah, sure, Millen had a few missteps. But that just makes him a man of the people, right ...

Bloomberg - Sainsbury agreed to open its books to the fund in September after Delta said it would borrow less to fund the transaction. In September, Delta increased the equity portion of the deal to 4.85 billion pounds from 4.6 billion pounds. The fund raised ...

Baltimore Sun - The Maryland State Teachers Association posted a video on YouTube last week highlighting the shortcomings of the state's schools: old books, portable classrooms, sweltering classrooms, large class sizes. "We've made real progress over the last four ...

Forbes - He has authored or edited several books and articles on euro adoption and former communist central Europe's entry and integration to the European Union. 'My government will do everything for Poland to meet euro criteria but the final decision will be ...

Forbes - ... over of the US subprime mortgage crisis on the rise again after Citigroup said it expects to make additional write-downs of 8-11 bln usd to reflect the declining value of the roughly 55 bln usd in subprime-related securities it holds on its books ...

Chicago Sun-Times - MINNEAPOLIS -- Minutes after Adrian Peterson lost a fourth-quarter fumble at the Chargers' 20-yard line, the ball was back in his hands. He rumbled around right end, paused to set up his blocks and sprinted 46 yards up the sideline for Minnesota's ...