Provides the latest RSS feeds for Books News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Shanghai Sun.com http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/cat/5c360008e1d53ede/ en-us Thu, 23 May 2013 14:18:35 -0400 Thu, 23 May 2013 14:18:35 -0400 30 Australian paceman Ryan Harris has said that cricketers found to be indulging in spot fixing should be banned for life and wiped from record books for turning the game into a 'joke'. Rajasthan Royals trio S.Sreesanth, Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila were arrested for alleged spot fixing in 2013 Indian Premier League fixtures, News.com.au reports. Wanting the maximum punishment for a player ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214707251/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 02:00:04 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214707251/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Johannesburg - South African stocks fell sharply on Thursday, logging their biggest drop in nearly two years, as miners slid on weak China economic data and signs the US central bank could soon cut its stimulus ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214718245/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 12:23:59 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214718245/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Granta , has left staff reeling as owner and philanthropist Sigrid Rausing steps up to take full control of the company.Over the past month Granta Magazine editor John Freeman and deputy editor Ellah Allfrey have both resigned. The magazine's art director and associate editor are also leaving. Earlier this week Philip Gwyn Jones, Granta's books publisher, announced his departure, and ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214718246/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 12:22:23 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214718246/scat/5c360008e1d53ede INDIANAPOLIS — Sarah Fisher is going back to school. The youngest woman to race in the Indianapolis 500 and first female car owner, Fisher has enrolled in the business school of Western Governors University to pursue her bachelor's degree. Fisher graduated near the top of her high school class but put college on hold to pursue her racing career. She spent three seasons in quarter ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214718247/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 12:21:35 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214718247/scat/5c360008e1d53ede On the heels of a recent report detailing 26,000 cases of military sexual assault in 2012 alone, a handful of lawmakers are pushing tough new laws that would punish the perpetrators of these crimes rather than the victim, and which seek to help transform the culture in a military that has been riddled with sexual offense. In a press conference Thursday, Sens. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., and Susan ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214717929/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 12:00:34 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214717929/scat/5c360008e1d53ede ST. PAUL, Minn. Recovery efforts have resumed for a little boy who disappeared at the site of a fatal landslide in a St. Paul park along the Mississippi River. A fourth-grade field trip to a Lilydale Regional Park turned deadly Wednesday ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214717928/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 12:00:33 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214717928/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Vietnam ) war by a North Vietnamese army veteran, although fiction, revealed truths to many people inside and outside Vietnam. The main protagonist, Kien - a thinly disguised portrait of the author - is a tortured soul whose sanity is threatened by his brutal experiences during the war.The story begins after the war, with Kien working in an army unit clearing battlefields of rotting corpses. The ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214716662/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 11:08:59 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214716662/scat/5c360008e1d53ede New Yorker , usually culled from the pages of lesser publications, under the heading: "Block That Metaphor!" It's sound advice, on the whole. There's nothing necessarily wrong with mixed metaphors, if they are well mixed: by flooding his china shop, Foulkes almost comes up with an evocative image, though he rather spoils it with the flat-hooved bull. But they are usually the ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214716663/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 11:08:57 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214716663/scat/5c360008e1d53ede With freedom of expression under threat in South Africa again, Anton Harber recalls an electric confrontation between two Booker prize winners, JM Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer, about the censorship of a third - Salman ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214716665/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 11:08:55 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214716665/scat/5c360008e1d53ede A Sport and a Pastim e is another masterpiece, and established Salter as maybe our best (and classiest) erotic novelist. All That Is is the soon to be 88 year-old Salter's seventh novel. The story of a man named Philip Bowman is told in spare and compact language (unusual for Salter), but is remains potent. We join Bowman off Okinawa during World War II, where he is a naval officer. The ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214716395/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 11:08:30 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214716395/scat/5c360008e1d53ede More than 30 years after he graduated high school, President Obama's senior prom pictures have emerged in public, featuring the president when he was 17 years old, clad in a white sport coat and a lei, posing for pictures with his friends. The photos, obtained ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214716299/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 10:47:31 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214716299/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Jung Chang 's first book in eight years, the "extraordinary" story of the Empress Dowager Cixi, will be released this autumn, her publisher has announced.Chang has based ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214715142/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 09:56:13 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214715142/scat/5c360008e1d53ede murder in London on Wednesday, but military officials confirm he was a serving soldier in the British Army. CBS News correspondent Charlie D'Agata reports the two men suspected in the attack spent Wednesday night under armed guard at separate hospitals as forensic teams continued to scour the scene of the brutal slaying. Prime Minister David Cameron called an emergency meeting of his ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214714849/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 09:34:32 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214714849/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Left: Boy Scout Alex Derr speaks out against anti-gay rules during the Equal Scouting Summit Press Conference, May 22, 2013, in Grapevine, Texas. Right: Boy Scout Jonathon Grime, 9, raise his hand at the close of a news conference held by people against the change in the Scouts' gay policy Wednesday in ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214714847/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 09:34:31 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214714847/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Police officers lay down floral tributes handed to them by members of the public May 23, 2013, at the scene of a deadly attack in Woolwich, southeast ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214714848/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 09:34:31 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214714848/scat/5c360008e1d53ede (CBS News) Court documents released this week show the Obama administration secretly monitored a Washington journalist. In seeking a search warrant, the FBI called Fox News' James Rosen a "criminal co-conspirator," even though he isn't charged with any crime. These revelations have set off a firestorm of criticism from the left and right, CBS News' Jan Crawford reports. ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214714846/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 09:34:30 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214714846/scat/5c360008e1d53ede CHF454 .16 million (USD466.65 million) for the three months to 31 March 2013, a drop of 4.9% compared to a year earlier, as greater earnings from the broadband segment failed to offset declining income from the mobile and fixed telephony ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214713789/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 08:51:46 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214713789/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Texas and 32 other states have reached a multistate antitrust settlement with Penguin Group (USA) Inc. over allegations that the company colluded with Apple Inc. over e-book pricing. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott and 32 other states and territories have agreed to settle their antitrust lawsuits against Penguin Group (USA) Inc. over allegations Penguin and Apple Inc. colluded to manipulate ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214714978/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 08:36:44 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214714978/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Science fiction and psychological thriller collide spectacularly in this heart-thumping tale of a time-traveling serial killer, a drifter in 1930s Chicago named Harper who stumbles into an abandoned house, where he finds women's names -; ''the shining girls,'' he calls them -; scrawled on walls in his own handwriting. The house, it turns out, is a portal, allowing him to ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214713790/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 08:13:21 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214713790/scat/5c360008e1d53ede "I have never been too fond of traditional heroes. Too much chin and too little room for error. The hero knows what to say in a tight spot and never loses a tooth or sustains facial damage except maybe a dainty scar on the cheek. I could never be a hero, especially one of the Spandex variety. I could never be a villain either as it requires a single mindedness that would be exhausting but I ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214712453/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 07:33:29 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214712453/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Ursula K Le Guin calls it "an invasion". But a host of authors have signed up to a new programme from Amazon, which encourages any fan who fancies it to write fiction inspired by their worlds, and sell it to readers through ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214712455/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 07:33:28 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214712455/scat/5c360008e1d53ede I liked this book, it wasn't a bad book, just not my sort of book.In the end I did manage to predict everything that happened and I found the book a bit slow paced, the same type of conversations and same worries all the way through. I will say one thing though, Ellie has managed to pull of her characters, they were lovable and unique, in fact, so was the ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214712454/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 07:33:26 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214712454/scat/5c360008e1d53ede top 300 U.S. billionaires , is not without her critics. But as the high-powered businesswoman heads to her confirmation hearing Thursday on the road to becoming President Obama's commerce secretary, vocal opposition to her approval has been limited -- and there's scant evidence to suggest Congress will put up a hard fight to block her from getting the job. Pritzker, who heads the ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214712182/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 07:11:14 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214712182/scat/5c360008e1d53ede DETROIT General Motors Co. is recalling more than 27,000 Cadillac SUVs worldwide because the wheels can fall off. The company says the recall affects the 2013 Cadillac SRX with 18-inch wheels. Canadian safety regulators say the wheel nuts may not have been tightened enough at the factory. GM says the problem hasn't caused any crashes or injuries, and no wheels have fallen from vehicles. ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214712183/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 07:11:13 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214712183/scat/5c360008e1d53ede London "We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you. We must fight them as they fight us." Those were the words of a man suspected of brutally slaying an active-duty British soldier on Wednesday in broad daylight. The two suspects' identities had not been confirmed Thursday morning, but multiple British media said they were both British, possibly even local south ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214712185/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 07:11:12 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214712185/scat/5c360008e1d53ede President Obama on Thursday will deliver a major speech on his counterterrorism policies, addressing everything from drone strikes and the status of the prison at Guantanamo Bay, to continuing efforts to fight al Qaeda and the legal framework for the continuing "war on terror." In the substantive speech to be delivered at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., Mr. Obama ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214712184/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 07:11:12 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214712184/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Shelves with free books will be placed inside four Sofia subway stations on May 24 when the country celebrates the Day of Slavic Script and Bulgarian Culture. The initiative "Books in the Subway" belongs to the civic association "Politronik" and the municipal "Metropolitan" company. The four stations are: National Stadium, Serdika, National Palace of Culture, and ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214711319/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 06:27:05 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214711319/scat/5c360008e1d53ede has energy, plenty of narrative hooks, and a brash intensity. It's also overlong and clumsy - not the kind of narrative vehicle that can make abrupt turns around tight ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214711320/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 06:22:21 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214711320/scat/5c360008e1d53ede An alchemical question: how do you make a book from a lump of lead? A year ago, I couldn't have told you. Now I know the answer. I know because I was fortunate enough to become friends with an artist called Stanley Donwood, a letterpress printer called Richard Lawrence and a young writer called Dan Richards, who is clever with his hands as well as with words. Together, we decided to ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214711321/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 06:22:20 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214711321/scat/5c360008e1d53ede NEW YORK The nation's record-low teen birth rate stems from robust declines in nearly every state, but most dramatically in several Mountain States and among Hispanics, according to a new government report. All states but West Virginia and North Dakota showed significant drops over five years. But the Mountain States of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada and Utah saw rates fall by 30 percent ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214711138/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 06:01:43 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214711138/scat/5c360008e1d53ede WASHINGTON Urban renewal? New census estimates show that most of the nation's largest cities further enhanced their allure last year, posting strong population growth for a second straight year. Big cities surpassed the rate of growth of their surrounding suburbs at an even faster clip, a sign of America's continuing preference for urban living after the economic downturn quelled ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214711137/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 06:01:42 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214711137/scat/5c360008e1d53ede James Salter, the veteran American novelist and short story writer, reads a story by Lydia Davis, winner of the 2013 Man Booker international ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214710350/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 05:14:39 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214710350/scat/5c360008e1d53ede listed their self-published Star Wars novel without a care for how George Lucas might feel about it.But that was then. Star Wars is now owned by Disney and fan fiction (fanfic) or money is going ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214710351/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 05:14:38 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214710351/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Bernard Shaw's 'Pygmallion' portrays a bet made by Henry Higgins, a well-know phonetician with his best friend, in which professor states that he can change a flower girl's entire behavior and manner of speech and in a few months she will look like a true lady.What I found particularly interesting in this play is surely the classic British humor sense which gives life to its ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214710352/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 05:14:37 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214710352/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Bangladesh ends building collapse search; final toll is 1,127 The investigating committee, appointed by the interior ministry, found that the ground Rana Plaza was built on was unfit for a multi-story building. "A portion of the building was constructed on land which had been a body of water before and was filled with rubbish," committee head Khandker Mainuddin Ahmed said. He said the ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214710185/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 04:53:26 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214710185/scat/5c360008e1d53ede In 2007, I had the privilege of becoming the first director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. My job was to move Nixon’s presidential materials from the Washington, D.C. area, where they had been kept as federal property because of the Watergate investigation, to California, where Nixon’s friends and supporters had built a private library in 1990. My job involved ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214709222/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 04:07:58 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214709222/scat/5c360008e1d53ede , "violence was the only law, and life was 'nasty, brutish and short'. Though individuals never lived in this state of nature, the Great Powers of Europe have always done ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214709223/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 04:04:17 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214709223/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Hosseini's shamelessly enjoyable tale of separated siblings draws on the tradition of the American airport novel - and is none the worse for ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214709224/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 04:04:16 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214709224/scat/5c360008e1d53ede When Heaven lose the Book of everything/The book of doom, they start to panic as it's the book of well, everything. It tells you everything that is happening right now, everything that is going to happen, and everything that has already happened. So when they think that Satan has it over in Hell they send a Mortal from Earth to get it back.They've been watching Zac for sometime so they ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214709225/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 04:04:15 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214709225/scat/5c360008e1d53ede It's wonderful stuff, swearing. It stiffens the sinews and summons up the blood, and not just metaphorically. Obscenities actually do act on us physiologically. Swearing increases electrical conductance across the skin, pushes the heart rate higher and measurably increases resistance to ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214708270/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 02:53:20 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214708270/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Lawmakers have advanced legislation to stem the growing epidemic of sexual assaults in the military. The bill approved by a House panel Wednesday authorizes changes to military law that would strip commanding officers of their authority to unilaterally change or dismiss court-martial convictions in major cases, such as rape and assault. Republicans and Democrats backing the revisions believe they ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214708137/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 02:32:25 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214708137/scat/5c360008e1d53ede The cast and crew of "Now You See Me" are hoping to strike magic at the box office with their new heist thriller. Jesse Eisenberg, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco and Woody Harrelson play a group of illusionists known as the Four Horsemen. They use their magic show as a cover to rob the wealthy elite and give the stolen money to people who've lost everything during the economic crisis. ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214708136/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 02:32:24 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214708136/scat/5c360008e1d53ede KATHMANDU, Nepal - An 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer on Thursday became the oldest person to reach the top of Mount Everest -- although his record may last only a few days. An 81-year-old Nepalese man, who held the previous record, plans his own ascent next week. Yuichiro Miura, who also conquered the 8,850-metre peak when he was 70 and 75, reached the summit at 9:05 a.m. local time Thursday, ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214707533/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 01:34:31 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214707533/scat/5c360008e1d53ede CBS News Jamie was all alone in her house with her two-year-old son, and the tornado was bearing down. "I was terrified, but I didn't want him to be scared," she said. "I just thought, 'I'll hold onto him.'" What Jamie didn't know was that her husband, Matt, was racing home. "I just wanted to get home, you know?" he said. "I ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214707195/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 01:25:51 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214707195/scat/5c360008e1d53ede (CBS News) MOORE, Okla. - The mayor of Oklahoma City said Wednesday as many as 13,000 homes were damaged or destroyed in Monday's tornado, and 33,000 people have been affected. The mayor says the damage could total $2 billion. The state medical examiner said there were 24 deaths. Two were infants: four months old and seven months ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214707196/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 01:25:50 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214707196/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Carole King " at a Washington ceremony Wednesday night. King became the first woman to win the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. The prize was created by the Library of Congress in 2007 to honor George ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214707431/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 01:18:35 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214707431/scat/5c360008e1d53ede How many patients did nurse Charlie Cullen kill by lethal injection over the years? Forty, as originally estimated, or closer to 400, as some ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214707353/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 01:15:09 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214707353/scat/5c360008e1d53ede The Punjab government has initiated a probe into the distribution of text books containing allegedly vulgar and irrelevant content in government schools, a minister said on Wednesday. Bathinda District Education Officer Surjit Singh Khuram was put under suspension for laxity in this connection.Punjab Education Minister SS Maluka inspected the books supplied to the schools in the state which have ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214706261/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Thu, 23 May 2013 00:22:51 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214706261/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Outfit yourself with a solid assortment of spring reads at the Vancouver Public Library. Books donated to the Friends of the Vancouver Public Library will go on sale to raise money for programs and services. May 23-25, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily, Promenade area of Library Square, 350 W. Georgia ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214705217/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 23:37:19 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214705217/scat/5c360008e1d53ede "It's good for kids to experience worms in a positive educational kid of way," library director Adaena Tray said. "Here, they can see them at the library in a fun ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214705218/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 23:06:21 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214705218/scat/5c360008e1d53ede The buzz is especially strong among the leaders of the Cooper-Siegel Community Library, who last week received a $20,000 donation from the Constellation Senior Players Championship as part of the PGA's mission to give back to the ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214705219/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 23:05:29 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214705219/scat/5c360008e1d53ede SPOKANE, Wash. - A 37-year-old man was arrested Wednesday in connection with a case in which a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin were discovered in Washington state last week.A grand jury indictment accused Matthew Ryan Buquet of mailing a death threat to U.S. District Judge Fred Van Sickle at the federal courthouse on May 14.A search of federal court records turned up no ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214704700/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 22:22:48 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214704700/scat/5c360008e1d53ede The uncertain future of the Yellow Pages directories publisher Hibu took yet another twist yesterday as the debt-laden company unexpectedly delayed its annual ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214704130/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 22:07:03 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214704130/scat/5c360008e1d53ede CBS News (CBS News) Many of the clothes in American stores are made in Bangladesh, which has a history of workplace disasters. Six months ago, 112 workers died when their factory burned down. Last month, another factory collapsed, killing more than 1,100 workers in one of the worst industrial accidents ever. If you own clothes that were made in Bangladesh, this is where they come from. ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214704060/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 21:54:24 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214704060/scat/5c360008e1d53ede This image provided by the Kosciusko County Sheriff's Department shows a chain-reaction crash involving four buses in North Webster, Ind., Wednesday, May 22, ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214704059/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 21:54:23 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214704059/scat/5c360008e1d53ede that four Americans were killed in drone strikes since 2009 as part of U.S. counterterrorism activities surrounding al Qaeda . Of the four, only one of them, Anwar al-Awlaki, was targeted, according to Attorney General Eric Holder in a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy. The following are descriptions of the four men killed in drone operations. Anwar al-Awlaki Anwar ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214704061/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 21:54:22 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214704061/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Poplar Creek Public Library has been awarded a grant to host a six-week program starting Wednesday, May 22, featuring documentary films and scholar-led discussions of 20th century American popular music. The grant is funded through the National Endowment for the Humanities, in collaboration with the Tribeca Film Institute and the American Library Association. The program, "America's ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214703064/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 21:07:51 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214703064/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Whether your summer destination is the beach, the mountains or the same old routine, these top new YA titles will help entertain you through the season. Rules of Summer by Joanna Philbin Make your way back ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214703116/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 20:58:57 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214703116/scat/5c360008e1d53ede What's new with Sharon Osbourne, co-host of the CBS daytime show The Talk? The wife of rocker Ozzy Osbourne (more on Ozzy in a moment) has written her first children's book, Mama Hook Knows Best: A ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214703115/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 20:58:56 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214703115/scat/5c360008e1d53ede A 37-year-old man was arrested Wednesday after a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin were discovered in Washington state last week. A grand jury indictment accuses Matthew Ryan Buquet of mailing a threatening communication to U.S. District Judge Fred Van Sickle at the federal courthouse on May 14. The indictment did not say anything about ricin. However, the U.S. Postal ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214703255/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 20:44:01 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214703255/scat/5c360008e1d53ede DAVID YAMAMOTO/SPECIAL TO THE STAR Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld answers a question Tuesday night during a speech at the Reagan Library in Simi ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214701906/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 20:08:55 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214701906/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Angela Merkel for the third year running.The German chancellor is ranked ahead of Brazil's president Dilma Rousseff, Melinda Gates, who co-chairs the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Michelle Obama, ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214701907/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 19:57:48 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214701907/scat/5c360008e1d53ede College student Dylan Dethier wrote the coming-of-age memoir '18 in America: A Young Golfer's Epic Journey to Find the Essence of the ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214701910/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 19:49:53 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214701910/scat/5c360008e1d53ede More than 500 authors will compete for attention at BookExpo America, the annual three-day trade show that opens May 30 in New York for 20,000 publishers, booksellers, librarians, agents and ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214701909/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 19:49:52 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214701909/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Author of best sellers Eat, Pray, Love and Committed Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction in October with her novel The Signature of All Things, described as 'a sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214701908/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 19:49:52 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214701908/scat/5c360008e1d53ede U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a favorite among liberals for her forceful advocacy for consumers and attacks against the financial industry, has a book deal. (Getty ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214701911/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 19:39:53 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214701911/scat/5c360008e1d53ede WASHINGTON Twitter is booming as a social media destination for teenagers who complain about too many adults and too much drama on Facebook, according to a new study published Tuesday about online behavior. It said teens are sharing more personal information about themselves even as they try to protect their online reputations. Teens told researchers there were too many adults on Facebook and too ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214702331/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 19:37:11 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214702331/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Those were the aphorisms Paula Brockes liked to reel off briskly to her only child, Emma, whom she raised in a village an hour outside London. Paula was from South Africa, and professed little love for her adopted country. She had nothing but tart disdain for ''the royals, hypocrisy, fat ankles'' -; but she heaped the most scorn on the country's famous emotional reserve. ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214701913/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 19:27:39 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214701913/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Photo credit: Attendees look at a copy of the Bill of Rights at the New York Public Library. (Jason DeCrow) After years of dormancy, a copy of the Bill of Rights will be on view in the Big Apple , but New Yorkers are going to have to wait awhile and share it with our Philly counterparts. Under the arrangement library administrators made with Pennsylvania government Wednesday, the document will ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214700557/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 18:44:15 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214700557/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Lydia Davis, an American writer of short stories --some of them just a single line long -- has won the 60,000 ($93,230 Cdn) Man Booker International Prize. She was named the winner in London Wednesday, coming out ahead of nine international contenders. Davis, 65, has written nine collections of short stories and one ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214700547/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 18:39:41 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214700547/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Television host Piers Morgan hosts a conversation titled ''Communication by Design: Inspirational Change'' during the final day of the Clinton Global Initiative 2012 (CGI) in New York September 25, ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214700524/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 18:34:13 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214700524/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Warning: graphic video. A man with bloodied hands and knives appears in amateur video that shows the immediate aftermath of an attack in southeast London in which a man was killed. Jessica ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214700317/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 18:28:44 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214700317/scat/5c360008e1d53ede In this photo made May 12, 2013, Sergio Garcia, of Spain, left, shakes hands with Tiger Woods at the end of the third round of The Players championship golf tournament at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214700316/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 18:28:43 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214700316/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Protesters of Mayor Rahm Emmanuel's plan to close dozens of city schools rally in the rotunda at the Illinois State Capitol Wednesday, May 22, 2013 in Springfield ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214700315/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 18:28:42 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214700315/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Stephen King's prolific output features a parade of terrors. Ghosts. Plagues. Haunted cars. Clowns. But his most resonant subject might just be the simple, ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214700558/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 18:19:19 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214700558/scat/5c360008e1d53ede NEW YORK -- U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a favorite among liberals for her forceful advocacy for consumers and criticisms of the financial industry, has a book deal.The Massachusetts Democrat has an agreement with Henry Holt and Company for a book, currently untitled, to be released in spring 2014, the publisher announced Wednesday.Warren, a first-term senator elected last fall, will write about ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214699185/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 17:43:42 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214699185/scat/5c360008e1d53ede What ethically challenged billionaire would not welcome the journalistic cosseting of Ben Mezrich? With each new book, Mr Mezrich becomes increasingly adept at how to use his kid gloves. He is expert at making up conversations he did not hear, sexing up parties he did not attend, pumping up the thrills of getting rich quick and playing down the legal liabilities of characters who may have done a ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214700551/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 17:41:01 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214700551/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Google has launched a redesigned version of the Google Publisher Bar, the Chrome extension it launched last year for AdSense earnings and performance updates. ';The Google Publisher Toolbar will continue to include the same popular functionality as before in addition to a new feedback mechanism and blocking ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214699187/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 17:21:30 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214699187/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Warning: graphic video. A man with bloodied hands and knives appears in amateur video that shows the immediate aftermath of an attack in southeast London in which a man was ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214698919/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 17:19:07 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214698919/scat/5c360008e1d53ede NEW YORK Stocks fell today on news that several Federal Reserve policymakers in a meeting earlier this month favored cutting back on stimulus programs as early as June if the economy continued to improve. The Dow Jones industrial average lost 80 points to 15,307, a loss of a half a percent. The release of minutes of the April 30-May 1 meeting reversed a 154 point surge in early trading after ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214699189/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 17:19:05 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214699189/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Attorney General Eric Holder says four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes since 2009. The attorney general said that in conducting U.S. counterterrorism operations against al Qaeda and its associated forces, the government has targeted and killed one American citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki. Awlaki, a senior al Qaeda operative, has been connected to the 2009 Christmas Day ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214698917/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 17:19:05 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214698917/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Author of The Enemy zombie series Charlie Higson is looking for a young film maker to create a gory trailer for his new book - could it be ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214697755/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 16:29:50 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214697755/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Police forensics tents and officers are seen in Woolwich, east London, May 22, 2013. British police shot and wounded two men after a man thought to be a serving soldier was killed outside a London barracks, in an attack Prime Minister David Cameron called "truly shocking." In a dramatic move, the government's emergency response committee was being summoned following the killing ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214697756/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 16:08:32 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214697756/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Scientists have discovered a strangely patterned new insect in the Philippines, dubbing it the "pirate ant" because of a dark stripe over its eyes that makes it look like it's wearing an eye patch. The formal name of the newfound creature is Cardiocondyla pirata, and belongs to a group of species that are found from Thailand across the whole Indonesian-Malaysian region. "On a ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214697473/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 16:08:31 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214697473/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Prince Charles, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, attend a garden party on the grounds of Buckingham Palace in London on May 22, ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214697472/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 16:08:30 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214697472/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Mugshot photos of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, left, and Ibragim Todashev, was fatally shot in Orlando, Fla. May 22, 2013 when he initiated a violent confrontation, FBI officials ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214697471/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 16:08:30 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214697471/scat/5c360008e1d53ede (CBS/AP) -- After launching deliberations Tuesday afternoon, a jury weighing whether or not Jodi Arias will be sentenced to death has announced they are unable to reach a unanimous decision. After briefly entering the courtroom just before noon on Wednesday, a judge ordered them to continue ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214697470/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 16:08:30 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214697470/scat/5c360008e1d53ede The former chief administrative officer of the Detroit Public Library has been charged with taking more than $1 million in kickbacks from contractors. Tim Cromer, who served as the library's chief administrative officer, and two contractors were charged Tuesday in a 21-count indictment, The Detroit News reported. Cromer, who was fired in February, had been suspended with pay after a raid on ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214697757/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 16:01:25 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214697757/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Copyright © 2013 NPR. For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required. DAVID GREENE, HOST: And our last word in business on this Wednesday is: Mile High Book Club. LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: We're talking about an in-flight library offered by the Australian airline Qantas. GREENE: They will still have movies on the plane, that right, Linda? ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214696051/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 15:23:12 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214696051/scat/5c360008e1d53ede British Library . "Now I could have sold them for a fortune, obviously - but then they'd just have gone into some American billionaire's bunker and never been seen again. I wanted them out where people can see and enjoy them."In the 1970s our house was burgled, and they got all my signed Beatles albums. At the time I put them down for insurance at 2 each. Recently a friend of ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214696313/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 15:17:54 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214696313/scat/5c360008e1d53ede created an ad for its upcoming 'Microsoft Reader' software . The headline blared, "This is a story about the future of reading," and underneath the story about the company's actual product, the marketers inserted a timeline based on "the best estimates of Microsoft researchers and developers" of what was going to happen to books in the future. The Microsoft ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214696017/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 14:58:50 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214696017/scat/5c360008e1d53ede President Barack Obama will travel to tornado-ravaged Moore, Okla., on Sunday. White House spokesman Jay Carney says the president will view the tornado damage first-hand. He also plans to meet with victims and first responders. The monstrous tornado barreled through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday afternoon, demolishing an elementary school and reducing homes to piles of rubble. State ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214695972/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 14:56:37 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214695972/scat/5c360008e1d53ede A plane carrying 140 people caught on fire when landing at an airport in Moscow, Russia. No one was injured. Video shows passengers fleeing the aircraft via emergency exits, then jumping from the wing, while firefighters attempt to extinguish the ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214695975/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 14:56:36 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214695975/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Mugshot photos of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, left, and Ibragim Todashev, was fatally shot in Orlando, Fla. May 22, 2013 when he initiated a violent confrontation, FBI officials ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214695974/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 14:56:35 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214695974/scat/5c360008e1d53ede BELMAR, N.J. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says now is "not a time for political retribution" against the people of Oklahoma victimized by a powerful tornado. The Republican governor on Wednesday urged lawmakers in Washington to support "swift and immediate" aid to tornado victims, even though Oklahoma's two GOP senators voted against bills sending $60 billion in federal ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214695973/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 14:56:35 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214695973/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Asthma suffers who aren't helped by existing medications may have reason to breathe a sigh of relief. An experimental drug called dupilumab was shown to reduce asthma attacks and helped boost lung function for people with moderate to severe asthma who can't control their symptoms with conventional medicine like ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214696340/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 14:56:33 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214696340/scat/5c360008e1d53ede In this photo taken Tuesday, May 14, 2013, Medical marijuana vials are displayed at the Venice Beach Care Center medical marijuana dispensary in Venice, Calif. Los Angeles politicians have tried and failed for so long to regulate medical marijuana that it was only a matter of time before voters got a chance to control shops that have ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214694278/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 13:44:02 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214694278/scat/5c360008e1d53ede U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a joint news conference with his Jordanian counterpart, Nasser Judeh, not pictured, in Amman Wednesday, May 22, ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214694279/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 13:44:01 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214694279/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Scientists say they have identified a compound that may be able to help cocaine addicts overcome their addiction. The molecule, called CGP3466B, has been shown in a new study to stop cocaine-addicted mice from wanting the drug. "It was remarkably serendipitous that when we learned which brain pathway cocaine acts on, we already knew of a compound, CGP3466B, that blocks that specific ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214694676/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 13:44:00 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214694676/scat/5c360008e1d53ede LONDON -; Shakespeare, the Magna Carta - and now some of John Lennon's finest lyrics. The august British Library has added substantially to its already formidable collection with handwritten lyrics to "Strawberry Fields Forever", "She Said She Said" and "In My ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214693085/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 12:59:49 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214693085/scat/5c360008e1d53ede F Scott Fitzgerald 's prose, is like trying to describe a gorilla playing with a Faberg egg. There it is, this great hairy, wild-eyed beast, stomping, roaring, thumping its chest. It neither knows nor cares about the delicate beauty it holds in its mattock hands, and has no idea why so many people think it so precious. ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214693086/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 12:50:50 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214693086/scat/5c360008e1d53ede I love how Amazon uses its power to help up-and-coming -- and often cash-strapped -- writers. This is the sixth year the site has held its Breakthrough Novel Awards (ABNAs), which gives one aspiring novelist a publishing contract and a $50,000 advance.The five finalists have just been announced, so now it's up to Amazon users to vote for the winner. Head over ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214693087/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 12:42:41 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214693087/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed May 22, 2013 12:39pm EDT By Kate Holton and Nate Raymond LONDON/NEW YORK May 22 (Reuters) - British publisher Pearson's Penguin unit said on Wednesday it would pay $75 million in damages plus costs to U.S. states and consumers as part of an agreement over alleged price-fixing in the e-book market. Pearson, which will take an extra provision on its accounts this year after setting aside ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214694518/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 12:39:26 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214694518/scat/5c360008e1d53ede (CBS News) The tornado that devastated Moore, Okla., completely demolished Plaza Towers Elementary School. Seven children were killed on the school's grounds. But miraculously, several students were pulled out from the rubble alive. Second-grade student Courtney Brown is one of those child survivors. From her hospital bed, the 8-year-old recalled the moment the warning sirens first sounded. ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214692738/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 12:29:21 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214692738/scat/5c360008e1d53ede What is the latest celebrity accessory trend? Diapers. In a humorous, but fact-filled PSA, Olivia Wilde, Bono and Richard Branson announce they are joining Matt Damon's toilet strike to raise awareness about the global water crisis. In the definition of promises they can't keep (but it's the sentiment that counts), the three celebs pledge, "We won't go to the bathroom ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214693072/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 12:29:13 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214693072/scat/5c360008e1d53ede * Deficit seen at 0.6 pct of GDP in 2014, 0.7 pct in 2015 * Putin promised balanced budget by 2015 * Finance Ministry says spending will remain constrained By Maya Dyakina MOSCOW, May 22 (Reuters) - Russia is likely to run a budget deficit at least until 2016, the Finance Ministry said on Wednesday, a decision that would break a pre-election promise of President Vladimir Putin to balance the ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214693088/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 12:22:27 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214693088/scat/5c360008e1d53ede , Tarttelin writes sensitively about how an intersex child might cope with the heightened emotions of adolescence, though Max can seem almost too perfect (and docile) even as he endures a series of plot twists that lean heavily on coincidence or ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214693089/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 12:19:37 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214693089/scat/5c360008e1d53ede This aerial view shows an entire neighborhood destroyed by Monday's tornado, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Moore, Okla. A huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds. (AP Photo/Tony ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214692129/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 11:46:40 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214692129/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Daniel Dennett, a cheerleader for Darwin and atheism, attracts fierce criticism for his views on free will. He talks about his new book and explains why philosophers have to walk a ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214691428/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 11:39:06 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214691428/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Updated at 10:45 a.m. ET Before invoking her Fifth Amendment right to remain silent, Lois Lerner, the head of the tax-exempt organizations division of the IRS, proclaimed her innocence before a congressional committee Wednesday. "I have not done anything wrong," Lerner told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. "I have not broken any laws. I have not violated any IRS ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214691044/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 11:16:45 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214691044/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke waits for the beginning of a hearing before the Joint Economic Committee May 22, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington, ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214691100/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 11:16:44 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214691100/scat/5c360008e1d53ede CBA Libris Awards which celebrate excellence in the Canadian bookselling industry. The CBA Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes individual's impact on Canadian literary culture. Past recipients ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214689848/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 10:17:16 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214689848/scat/5c360008e1d53ede NEW YORK | Wed May 22, 2013 10:16am EDT NEW YORK May 22 (Reuters) - Robin Roberts, the popular co-host of U.S. television show "Good Morning America," will write a memoir detailing her struggles against cancer and a blood disorder and the lessons she has learned, her publisher said on Monday. The book will be published in April 2014, according to Grand Central Publishing, a ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214691430/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 10:16:17 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214691430/scat/5c360008e1d53ede (MoneyWatch) You've been told time and time again that buying a home is a better financial option than renting. But that's not true everywhere. Despite the affordability of today's homes, there are a few cities around the U.S. where renting might be a better bet, at least in the short run. Comparing buying versus renting costs is all about identifying the break-even point. ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214689492/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 10:03:43 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214689492/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Carole King poses for photographers before an event to honor her with the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, at the Library of Congress, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214689756/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 10:03:42 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214689756/scat/5c360008e1d53ede It was the 83-year-old grandmother's first time back at her home since a monstrous and deadly tornado ravaged her neighborhood in suburban Oklahoma City. Part of the roof was sitting in the front yard, and the siding from the front of the house was gone. As her son, Jeff, and her grandsons picked through what was left of her belongings, Arvin found some dark humor in the situation. "Oh ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214689446/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 10:03:38 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214689446/scat/5c360008e1d53ede An award-winning children's publisher has cut its ties with Amazon, saying that the online retail giant has turned its books into commodities and undermined its way of doing business.Citing her commitment "to diversity and to grassroots values; to 'small is beautiful'", Barefoot Books co-founder Nancy ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214688300/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 09:08:36 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214688300/scat/5c360008e1d53ede A third of the way into Gill Hornby's much-hyped school-gates comedy, things almost take a surprising turn. Rachel, the main mum, has recently been left by her husband and - worse - dropped by Bea, the all-powerful chair of the St Ambrose Church Primary Fundraising Committee. Rachel has noticed a "newbie" mum she likes the look of, Melissa, who is tall and dark and "a study in ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214688301/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 09:08:30 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214688301/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Join the Poo Crew as they guide you through time in this craptastic and pissarific children's book that tells you about the many amazing uses for poo and ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214688302/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 09:08:28 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214688302/scat/5c360008e1d53ede posted a briefing on YouTube more that three hours earlier stating that tornadoes were likely in the area. Based on modeling and historical trends, the NWS had been warning for days that conditions were ripe for a tornado to hit the region. "The story is not that this was not warned for," said Dr. Marshall Shepherd, president of the American Meteorological Society. "We knew that ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214688304/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 08:45:45 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214688304/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Min Bahadur Sherchan, center, who became the oldest person to climb Mount Everest on May 25, 2008 shakes hands on his arrival in Katmandu, Nepal May 31, ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214687980/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 08:45:44 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214687980/scat/5c360008e1d53ede ROME A Judge in Italy has ordered trial for the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship that ran aground off Italy last year, killing 32 people. On Tuesday, Italian prosecutors rejected a plea bargain bid by the captain, defense lawyers ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214687981/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 08:45:44 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214687981/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Updated at 8:15 a.m. ET (CBS News) The FBI was involved in a fatal shooting near Universal Studios in Orlando, Fla., early Wednesday that killed a man with ties to the older brother suspected in last month's deadly terrorist bombing at the Boston Marathon. CBS News senior correspondent John Miller, a former FBI assistant director, reported on "CBS This Morning" that the man, ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214687982/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 08:45:43 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214687982/scat/5c360008e1d53ede A depiction of Abraham Lincoln stands in front of the White House at the his presidential museum in Springfield, Ill., on Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012. Photo by Robert Cohen, ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214686904/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 08:05:16 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214686904/scat/5c360008e1d53ede From the Edinburgh world writers' conference in Saint-Malo, a speech on art, writing and reality from the French-Afghan author and film-maker Atiq ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214686907/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 07:57:35 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214686907/scat/5c360008e1d53ede (CBS News) The FBI says it was involved in a fatal shooting near Universal studios in Orlando, Fla. early Wednesday. CBS News correspondent John Miller, a former FBI assistant director, says the victim was "someone (the agency was) looking at in connection with (Boston bominbgs suspect) Tamerlan (Tsarnaev), based on contacts they had." In a statement Wednesday, the FBI said, "We ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214686620/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 07:35:04 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214686620/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Michelle Obama , a concert in the East Room honoring singer-songwriter Carole King, who will be awarded the 2013 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. The concert is part of the "In Performance at the White House" series. Vice ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214687125/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 07:28:35 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214687125/scat/5c360008e1d53ede 'Funny is the future' advises Wendy Meddour, author of Wendy Quill is a Crocodile's Bottom, as she shares her top tips for writing silliness that makes readers roll with ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214685739/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 06:48:37 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214685739/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Coming of age has been a theme of the novel since the conception of Tom Jones, so to choose just 10 from the possible hordes, I had to invent some strict criteria. First, I decided I was only interested in single protagonists - out ... http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214685740/scat/5c360008e1d53ede Wed, 22 May 2013 06:48:35 -0400 http://www.shanghaisun.com/index.php/sid/214685740/scat/5c360008e1d53ede