Consider the odds of your having been born: from the earliest stirrings of protohominid life — the ones writer Arthur C. Clarke and director Stanley Kubrick imagined in “2001: A Space Odyssey” — to the present, across untold generations.
6 Dr. Seuss books won’t be published anymore because they portray people in ‘hurtful and wrong’ ways
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Six Dr. Seuss will no longer be published because they "portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong," the business that preserves the author's legacy said. The titles are: "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulb...
This Virginia school district says it isn’t banning Dr. Seuss’ books. On the annual Read Across America Day, it’s just no longer emphasizing them
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A school district in Virginia recently made headlines for allegedly banning books by Dr. Seuss. But Loudoun County Public Schools(LCPS), located in Ashburn, said it is not banning books by the famous children's aut...
In the quest to create more content, Hollywood streamers are hitting the books
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Remember when reading the book before the movie was a thing? Well, it's practically impossible to keep up now. With the combination of celebrity books clubs (Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Jenna Bush Hager and ...
Swimming: Ikee books Olympic qualifiers spot after leukaemia treatment
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Japanese swimmer Rikako Ikee will compete in Olympic qualifiers in April after clinching a podium finish in her first 100 metres butterfly event since being treated for leukaemia. Ikee, who was diagnosed in February ...
Stephen King to donate $6,500 to elementary students in Maine so they can publish their own books
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Author Stephen King is giving back, by donating thousands of dollars to an elementary school in his home state of Maine so that a group of students can publish their own books. King will be donating $ 6,500 to Farw...
‘Groundhog Day,’ the movie’s final life lessons for our perpetual pandemic
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David G. Allan is the editorial director for CNN Travel, Style, Science and Wellness. This essay is part of a column called The Wisdom Project, to which you can subscribe here. "What would you do if you were stuck ...
Amanda Gorman’s three books will get one million first prints due to overwhelming demand
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To meet the demand for Amanda Gorman's unreleased books, her publisher announced it will print one million copies of each of her three titles. Gorman 22, turned heads and stole hearts when she delivered a powerful ...
Watergate inspired movies. The Trump era history will likely be told on TV
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"Frontline" closes out its stellar work during the Trump presidency with "Trump's American Carnage," a documentary charting the chaos and discord that characterized Donald Trump's time in the White House, methodical...
Doorbell camera captures a woman saving her neighbors from their burning home
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Nicole Salgado and her family woke up on New Year's Day to frantic knocking at the front door of their home in Avondale, Arizona. Her house was on fire, and she didn't know it. "We were all asleep," Salgado told CN...
12 books we’re excited about this year
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Pandemic reading means different things to different people. Some of us like to escape our Blursday monotony with a breathless page-turner. Others seek out nonfiction to better understand the complex, chaotic world ...
Movies 2020: With ‘Tenet’ and ‘Mulan,’ theaters never had a fighting chance
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Hollywood studios and movie theaters spent much of the spring and summer engaged in a strange chess match, trying to find the right time to launch two aspiring blockbusters, "Tenet" and "Mulan," which might jumpstar...