A Hipper Crowd of Shushers
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A new type of librarian is emerging: think Dewey Decimal meets Generation X.
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In brief Mopping up the minorities
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Amazing, but even in this time of goodwill and cheer, some folks are always looking for a fight. A recent exchange with a regular reader got me thinking how divisive things can get.
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By Jeb Phillips, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Feb. 14--Most are one in a million, yelling out into the universe, just in case.
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As a wave of contemporary art installations is being unveiled in cathedrals, churches and chapels across Europe, religious spaces are once again becoming showcases for many artists.
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Georgi Page was one lonely protester, standing out there on Eleventh Avenue all by herself. She'd come to the Potamkin Hummer dealership expecting to join a crowd of committed environmentalists in a protest against the gas-guzzling ravages of SUVs. Instead, she found a crowd of two dozen news reporters, 40 police officers and three private security guards.
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The protest against Wal-Mart in the Hasidic town of Monsey N.Y., has a decidedly religious overtone.
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By Mary Hopkin, Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.  Sep.
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In the city of Nis, in Serbia and Montenegro, the Gypsy quarter crowds in 800 people on just over two acres, a little enclave that has grown in a haphazard fashion as the city's Jewish population has dwindled.
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Signet rings, traditionally worn as a paterfamilias hand-me-down, are enjoying a revival.
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Have trouble seeing the pope from the back row of a crowd of approximately 900,000 people?
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Many professionals of the Jewish, Muslim and Hindu faiths regularly have to balance their religion and their jobs.
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There was no room to move. Even less to breathe. But nobody seemed to mind. The sea of bodies just kept swaying. To the left, the right and back to the left again.
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NEW YORK A spectator with an especially intimate view of human evolution is beginning to tell its story and has so far divulged two quite unexpected findings.
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Long stuck in splintered obscurity, the group is seeing an increase in activity and a return to its nativist origins.
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The Polyphonic Spree, a rock collective with two dozen members, looks like a cult and sounds like a choir.
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Move over, Trekkies. Some new self-described "geeky" enthusiasts are in town.