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Weekend Words: Paper
A new exhibition at the Grolier Club in Manhattan celebrates 500 years of the paperback book with a tribute to the Venetian printer Aldus Manutius (1455–1515), who was the first to create books in a portable format.
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Weekend Words: Brown
Now that Kate Brown has ascended to the governorship relinquished by the scandal-plagued John Kitzhaber, the neighboring states of Oregon and California each have a governor named Brown.
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Weekend Words: Anchor
This week, two TV news anchors are going away.
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Weekend Words: Disease
As cases of measles escalate, the New York Times reported this week that infectious diseases once believed to be “forever in the country’s rearview mirror” are now returning because ‘too many people are not getting their children vaccinated, out of a conviction that inoculations are risky.”
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Weekend Words: Predict
If you want to work out the kinks in predicting the weather, the Old Farmer's Almanac offers a number of folk remedies you can try.
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Weekend Words: Sweat
On Tuesday, Hyperallergic's Benjamin Sutton reported that a civil court in Antwerp has convicted Luc Tuymans of copyright infringement for appropriating an image by photojournalist Katrijn Van Giel for his painting, “A Belgian Politician” (2011).
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Weekend Words: Separation
This week, amNewYork reported on a recent study from the University of Missouri investigating smartphone separation anxiety.
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Weekend Words: Police
This week, it came to light that the tensions between the New York City police force and Mayor Bill de Blasio may be resulting in fewer arrest and virtually no tickets.
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Weekend Words: Extra
It's been an extra-chilly week in New York, just the time for an Extra Edition of Weekend Words.
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Weekend Words: Fifteen
All best wishes for 2015.
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Weekend Words: Play
A scientist at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth has strung together nearly 200 PlayStation 3 video game consoles to create a low-cost supercomputer, the perfect thing to simulate two black holes slamming into each other.
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Weekend Words: Island
It only took a half-century, but this week the United States restored diplomatic relations with the island nation 90 miles off its shoreline.