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Business

Businesses Harness Power of the Crowd

Unlike outsourcing, where a company moves for cheaper labor costs, crowd sourcing opens up work and creative inventions to everyone — "the crowd." It's come to mean using the Internet to put out a call for research, ideas or products, using monetary awards or prizes as an incentive.

Businesses Harness Power of the Crowd

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Books

Potter Publisher Predicted Literary Magic

One the eve of the release of the seventh and final Harry Potter book, the Scholastic editor who brought Harry Potter to the U.S. looks back on a lucky find that he knew would make literary magic.

Potter Publisher Predicted Literary Magic

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Diversions

Typist Aims for Instant-Messaging Record

Norman Perez is attempting to set the first Guinness World Record for the longest computer keyboard typing session — by instant messaging almost nonstop. Margot Adler stops by the window where he is sitting — and typing and typing and typing.

Typist Aims for Instant-Messaging Record

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Pop Culture

Functional Designs that Change Lives

An unusual exhibit at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York shows design at its cheapest and most functional. "Design for the Other 90%" displays the work of social entrepreneurs whose designs help people who lack food, education, water and shelter.

Functional Designs that Change Lives

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Food

Perfume Dinner Is a Feast for the Nose

Chandler Burr writes about perfume for The New York Times. He and a chef at New York's The Carlyle, A Rosewood Hotel, have developed a gourmet dinner designed to show how perfume can enhance food and drink.

Perfume Dinner Is a Feast for the Nose

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Law

Gault Case Changed Juvenile Law

In 1967 a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision gave juveniles accused of crimes the same due process rights as adults. The case involved Jerry Gault, who at 14 was given a seven-year sentence for a prank phone call. Gault's story didn't end there.

Gault Case Changed Juvenile Law

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National

NYC Police Infiltrated Political Groups

The New York City Police Department has released documents that show officers infiltrated political groups a year before the Republican National Convention in 2004. A judge ordered the documents made public after a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union.

NYC Police Infiltrated Political Groups

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Politics

Churches May Help in Fight Against Deportations

Religious leaders have launched a national effort to provide sanctuary for illegal immigrants. The movement calls on churches to open their doors for people who face deportation.

Churches May Help in Fight Against Deportations

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Low-Wage America

Chinese Restaurant Workers Protest Low Wages

Chinese restaurant workers are protesting their low wages by picketing some restaurants in New York's Chinatown. Some workers say they were fined by their bosses for infractions such as not entering meal orders into the computer quickly enough.

Chinese Restaurant Workers Protest Low Wages

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Business

Chinese Restaurant Workers in U.S. Face Hurdles

There are about 40,000 Chinese restaurants in the United States. Many of the workers in the kitchen are recent arrivals from China — some legal, some not — and many took on significant debts to get to the United States.

Chinese Restaurant Workers in U.S. Face Hurdles

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Shooter Takes Deadly Toll at Virginia Tech

Cho Writings Highlight a Writing Class Quandary

Virginia Tech gunman Seung-hui Cho revealed a troubling level of violence in his creative writing class. Creative writing instructors are in a unique position to observe the emotional lives of their students. They also walk a fine line in judging what is creative and what is dangerous.

Cho Writings Highlight a Writing Class Quandary

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Politics

Dusting Off American Communist Archives

New York University's Tamiment Library recently inherited the complete archive of the American Communist Party, including millions of photos and correspondence by some of the party's most infamous members.

Dusting Off American Communist Archives

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National

Sculpting a New York Park in Sound

Take a walk through New York City's Madison Square Park, and you might be surprised by the sounds reverberating through it. Bird songs, bell chimes and traffic sounds all interwoven to form the latest creation of sound artist Bill Fontana.

Sculpting a New York Park in Sound

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Race

Douglass Memorial Sparks Debate on Art vs. History

Did slaves use secretly coded quilt patterns to help plan their escapes on the Underground Railroad? Many historians have their doubts. The design for a new Frederick Douglass memorial sparks a debate pitting oral tradition against documented historical fact.

Douglass Memorial Sparks Debate on Art vs. History

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Religion

Filmmaker Cameron Claims to Find 'Tomb of Jesus'

Titanic director James Cameron says he has found the remains of Jesus Christ, Mary Magdalene and a son named Judah. Scholars are skeptical. A documentary, The Lost Tomb of Jesus, will debut March 4 on the Discovery Channel.

Filmmaker Cameron Claims to Find 'Tomb of Jesus'

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