Two-time Newbery Honor book winner Bruce Brooks is an author of nonfiction, novels, and stories for both YA and younger readers. Called "an outstandingly perceptive writer," by a critic for Kirkus Rev...
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Valued at approximately $44 billion in 2006, the overall market for pet products and services is expected to post a 7.1 percent compound annual growth rate during the 2003 to 2009 period. Household...
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With music pumping in the background, the kids in Terry Wade's physical education class are in constant motion, going from sit-ups to jumping jacks to curls with light weights.After their 45-minute...
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Governor Eliot Spitzer has gone out of his way to alienate some of the old guard in Albanyâfolks with long memories will recall how Jimmy Carter did the same thing with Congress, ...
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Daniel Briere took care of the scoring. Ryan Miller thwarted two of the league's most dangerous players in the shootout. Briere had two goals in regulation and another in the shootout, leading the ...
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Ricky Rudd is almost 51 and the grueling Nextel Cup schedule has finally taken its toll on the one-time NASCAR ironman."To run this schedule week in and week out, week in and week out, it's more de...
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Yes, you heard right. This year's prime-time Emmys really were awarded a few days ago. Lots of winged statuettes were presented. A hardcore audience (the second-smallest on record) saw it happen.No...
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And the loser is ... Hillary Clinton.That's how Republicans cast their debate Sunday night, when they weren't feuding with one another in their most direct and contentious exchanges yet.Former New ...
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Stress doesn't really have a season, but if it did, it would be now. The clock is ticking, the chores are mounting, the plastic reindeer are nibbling your grass. Attention, shoppers: The family mad...
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It’s a somewhat modern-day Shakespearean story. On one side is a 47 year-old NASCAR driver from the foothills of the Ozark Mountains, whose sport has been seemingly mired in its Confederate r...
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Walgreen doesn't just want to be your pharmacy -- it wants to be your backup health-care provider as well. The drugstore giant, with 5,693 outlets in 48 states and Puerto Rico, is going full-tilt i...
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