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Published: 01/28/11

Tiny Superheroes Don Capes and Do Good

By  Susanna Baird - AOL News
Tiny Superheroes Don Capes and Do Good

Super Cooper cannot sling webs. He does not pilot an invisible airplane, communicate telepathically with sea creatures or leap tall buildings in a single bound. Super Cooper does possess a guileless enthusiasm, a proper red superhero's cape and an open-book approach to reporters not usually found in men of steel. He readily told AOL News about his latest act of derring-do-good. "We saw someone next door and we said hi. And we gave him flowers. And we tell him he could come to our school." Courtesy of Kristal Burns Preschoolers at Missoula Community School in Missoula, Mont., ...

Published: 06/12/10

E-Readers Are Rock Stars, but My Heart Belongs to Hardcovers

By  Delia Lloyd - Politics Daily
E-Readers Are Rock Stars, but My Heart Belongs to Hardcovers

For my mother's 79th birthday later this month, her four children are going to give her an e-reader. We have yet to decide which one to give her, but she's very keen to join this trend. As a frequent traveler, and avid reader, she finds that she's always lugging 12 hard-cover books wherever she goes (often London to visit me!). So she'd like to lighten her load. Apparently, several of her friends already have e-readers and they are all thrilled with them. I have mixed feelings about this present. On the one hand, as someone who -- by her own admission -- barely has running water and ...

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