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In the age of digitisation, the 'search' part of research has become a virtual experience. Although progress has many advantages, John Sutherland laments the end of the scholar-adventurer and the thrill of discovery amid dusty, uncatalogued manuscripts She was going to a conference on biography at the University of Southern California, Sarah Churchwell said, and intended to make her first trip to the Huntington Library.

The big news: Twitter just released a report that details (somewhat) where requests for user info and copyright takedown notices come from. The funny news: One of the complaints linked to the report is from Square, which is Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey's new company.

SAN JOSE, California (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Friday granted Apple Inc's request for a preliminary injunction against the sale of Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's Galaxy

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It's an unusual situation to say the least - a woman in a less than ideal predicament, literally stuck in a bathroom at a Walmart in Monticello. In a small town like Monticello rumors spread pretty quickly. So when this incident happened last week at Walmart everybody was talking about it in no time.

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ATLANTA (CNS) -- Events in Atlanta June 11 and Washington June 12 reflected the latest push from advocates for comprehensive immigration reform, this time focused on making it an election issue.

The next frontier could be within reach. A private Dutch company recently announced its plants to colonize Mars, turning the red planet into an alternative society for humans. It's a bold plan, and one that comes at the same time and more and more private sector firms are launching their own galactic efforts.

In the days of community banks, a person's upstanding reputation around town gave him access to a reasonable loan. But global financial institutions can't trust strangers, so the credit rating was born. But a startup called Lenddo hopes to return lending to that community bank era, but with a modern twist.

The long standing online translation service Babel Fish is no more. The web application that was launched in 1999 changed owner twice, first in 2003 when it was bought by AltaVista, and then again in the same year when Yahoo bought the AltaVista company.

Shawn Johnson will not compete at this summer's Olympic Games. The 2008 all-around silver medalist announced Sunday that her competitive career has come to an end. "I feel kind of numb and it sucks, but things happen for a reason and my body came to a point where I just couldn't take it anymore," Johnson told NBCOlympics.com.

Grover Norquist lashed out at former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) on Friday, the latest Republican to buck the conservative leader's anti-tax pledge. During an appearance on CNN's the Situation Room, a visibly frustrated Norquist - president of Americans for Tax Reform - said that Bush "kind of stepped in it a little bit" when [...]

Pitching is such a vital part of the game, as far as winning is concerned. On most teams the set up man has become more valuable, on others not so valuable. Something to keep in mind - it's raining lightly. The infield could be very wet on ground balls.

In 1962, Doc Watson and some of his musician neighbors set out from their home in the Blue Ridge Mountains on the journey of a lifetime, to perform at the Ash Grove folk club in Los Angeles. "I remember the first trip we did," Watson said in a 2008 interview.

Sometimes reporting, editing and producing a breaking news story can be frustrating, because two new developments land on your doorstep before the last one has made it through the production process. That's what happened when a gunman entered a real estate office in Valparaiso, Ind., today and took about 10 hostages.

The change is designed to reshape how Alabama's leading media companies deliver award-winning local news, sports and entertainment coverage in an increasingly digital age. The Alabama Media Group will dramatically expand its news-gathering efforts around the clock, seven days a week, while offering enhanced printed newspapers on a schedule of three days a week.

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