Cormac McCarthy receives PEN award

Pulitzer Prize winner Cormac McCarthy has received another literary honor.

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Appiah to be next president of writers group

A Princeton University professor with a wide range of expertise will be the next president of the American center of PEN, the writers organization.

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Review: Swann's camera pen lets you play spy

With my trench coat and dark glasses, I looked like a rumpled, portly version of Jason Bourne or James Bond as I stood by the Glienicke Bridge between Berlin and Potsdam, famed as the transfer point for captured spies between the East and the West during the Cold War.

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Russia's Moiseev takes modern pentathlon

Andrey Moiseev of Russia has won the men's Olympic modern pentathlon, outlasting a pair of Lithuanians during the final run.

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Opening new portals for the blind

For blind students, surfing the Web or taking detailed notes in physics and calculus classes can require cumbersome and expensive learning aids. Two new technologies, however, promise to greatly expand access to text and graphics for the blind community without breaking the bank.

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Council Member Complains Over Thrown Pen

Fur may not be flying in Iron Mountain politics, but an airborne pen has led one city council member to make a criminal complaint against a colleague.

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Prose to Serve 2nd Term As PEN Leader

When Francine Prose agreed a year ago to serve as president of the American center of PEN, the international writers organization, her excitement at taking the job was weighted slightly by concerns she wouldn't have time for other projects.

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PEN Event Features Rushdie, Steve Martin

Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer, Salman Rushdie and Steve Martin will be among the many writers and performers featured at the third annual PEN World Voices festival, to be held April 24-29 in settings throughout New York City.

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AP Interview: Le Pen Seeks Softer Image

He has been convicted for minimizing the Holocaust and warning that France risks being overrun by Muslims. But as he embarks on his fifth and likely last bid for the presidency, far-right nationalist Jean-Marie Le Pen doesn't want to dwell on such remarks.

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School Shuns Tech, Teaches Fountain Pen

In this age of cell phones, text messages and computer keyboards, one Scottish school has returned to basics. It's teaching youngsters the neglected art of writing with a fountain pen.

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College Professor Displays $170,000 Pen

A pocket protector would be pointless for this diamond-encrusted, $170,000 fountain pen that will never be used. "You do not put ink in that pen. It's like owning a Ferrari that you don't want to drive," said owner Al Parrish, a Charleston Southern University professor.

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Soldier, on Leave From Iraq, Meet Pen Pals

Third-graders at the St. Patrick School know nothing of roadside bombs or the insurgents in Iraq. They only know their pen pal, Sgt. Travis Collier, is serving there.

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Photo Essay from Time Magazine. Not sure how old this E-Reader list is. But I didn't know there were other companies outside of Sony and the Kindle that were selling competitive E-readers. Cool. Would love to buy one of these.

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Congratulations to everyone on the Fox News team. Obviously, it takes a total team effort to be the Leader on cable news. The best way Americans can honor the men and women serving overseas is to be informed about the issues confronting our country.

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Arctic explorer Pen Hadow and his team are relying on a pair of lady's knickers to navigate their way to the North Pole after compasses failed.

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Americans have developed an admirable fondness for books, food, and music that preprocess other cultures. But for all our enthusiasm, have we lost our taste for the truly foreign?

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Pen-demonium: Pres. Obama learns to never use same pen twice

As he settled into his very first days in office newly sworn President Barack Obama made a surprising discovery this week—in the White House, pens matter.

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From K-Rock site: Chris Booker is back on 92.3 K-ROCK and will take over afternoon drive (2pm-7pm) starting Wednesday, January 7, it was announced today by 92.3 K-ROCK's PD, Mark Chernoff.

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By Ralph Peters New York Post | Thursday, July 10, 2008 THE greatest lie intellectuals tell us is that "the pen is mightier than the sword." That's what cowards claim when they want to preen as heroes.

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It's been reported a new Spy Pen Digital Video Recorder was able to record a video of the technician working on the new James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, that was stabbed the other night with a steak knife.

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By Kelly Valen Tue Apr 8, 4:00 AM ET

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Vaclav Klaus Will Sign His Czech Presidential Oath With A $60,000 Pen

Prague - On Friday Vaclav Klaus will sign his second Czech presidential oath of office, this time with a limited edition pen that would carry a $60,000 price tag if it were actually for sale.

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The tribute's most affecting moments were almost entirely personal: Edwidge Danticat noted that Achebe was the first writer she'd ever came across with a name as strange as hers; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talked about growing up in Nigeria and identifying with the white boys a …

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There's no writing here, but it was a winner in the designboom competition-

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A new smartpen could change the way people practice mobile computing by bringing processing power to traditional pen and paper. Made by Livescribe, of Oakland, CA, the smartpen is designed to digitize the words and drawings that a user puts down on paper and bring them to life.

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It's never easy writing about media freedom.

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A man has pled guilty in the UK to murdering a student in an attack that involved stabbing the victim multiple times with a pens! More details on the other side...

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Quill pens were common ink-writing instruments in medieval times. They appeared around 700 A.D. and eventually replaced reed pens. At that time five outer left wing feathers of birds were used to produce quill pens.

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This is a really good trick that will help you meet your quota for the papers you are writing in college or high school. It is nearly impossible to spot, and it can add pages to your paper.

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Although this is a very simple and stupid trick, but there are some people still can't figure it out,

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When it comes to etching stuff onto a cheap magnetic toy(s), no one does is better than George Vlosich. His works are so paradoxially original that MSNBC even decieded to interview him. Here's the interview for your muse

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learn here an amazing magic trick to vanish an object. it's very easy. u can try it on any one anywhere. it is easy and u don't need any practice. but remember the magic is relly very amazing.

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InputDraw - Ultimate flash draw component.

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Mont Blanc, regarded as the worlds finest writing pens, specially designs their refills so you must use them with their $200.00+ pens. Now, with this guide, you can hack an ordinary $3.00 pen to use those refills and save a boat-load of money.

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"... The flight earned a bit of notoriety soon after it ended when the astronauts were at a press conference and were asked about a "contraband" baloney sandwich that Young had carried aboard the flight in lieu of the officially approved food that they had been provided.

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Looks like the Wacom tablet company is making some very intersting new technologies for their new tablets.

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New York, New York, March 29, 2006—PEN American Center has named Sibel Edmonds, a translator who was fired from her job at the FBI after complaining of intelligence failures and poor performance in her unit, as the recipient of this year's prestigious PEN/Newman's Own First

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