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18 hrs ago | Patent Prospector

Fact Into Fiction

A trial court is trier of fact, with judge or jury as decider of fact. But a judge may overrule a jury verdict, thus obviating the jury's role.

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Related Topix: Alternative, Semiconductors, Asyst Technologies, Electronics, Startups, Inventions, Science / Technology

Wed Oct 08, 2008

411mania.com

411 Fact or Fiction 10.09.08: Bound for Glory, Vladimir Kozlov, Sting vs. Joe and More

Joe and More! Posted by Larry Csonka on 10.09.2008 Week ONE HUNDRED and NINETY-NINE features Geoff Eubanks, JP Prag, James Thomlison, Nick Marsico and discussion of TNA's new drug policy! Welcome back to ...

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Related Topix: Alternative

Victoria Advocate

In Good Company

October 08, 2008 - 12:00 a.m. Carmen Edington was recently hired as the assistant editor of Fiction Collective Two, an independent, alternative press based at the University of Houston-Victoria. Her duties ...

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Related Topix: Alternative, University of Houston Victoria, Victoria Metro, Victoria, TX, Texas, Yoakum, TX

Tue Sep 23, 2008

Iowa City Press-Citizen

Writers to present a free reading

Fiction writer Madeleine Thien from Canada and Cuban poet, fiction writer and essayist Rogelio Saunders, who lives in Spain, will present a free reading at 5 p.m. Sunday in Prairie Lights Books.

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Related Topix: Alternative, University of Iowa, Iowa, Arts, Poetry

Mon Sep 22, 2008

BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content

Ars Nova to Present FREE Reading of 'OOHRAH!' 9/22

Ars Nova presents, as part of the Out Loud series, a FREE reading of OOHRAH! by Bekah Brunstetter , directed by Leigh Silverman .

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Related Topix: Alternative, The New School, Springs, NY, Theater, Arts, Manhattan, NY, New York, NY

Sat Sep 20, 2008

Business Day

One the literary snobs may skip

The son of the doyen of spy fiction has written a serious book disguised as a fantasy novel, so it's not just for the populist palate, writes AMANDA LORENTZ THE Gone-Away World was greeted with loud fanfare and ...

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Related Topix: Alternative

Tue Sep 09, 2008

BBC

At-a-glance: Booker shortlist 2008

The shortlist for this year's Booker Prize for Fiction has been announced. Here is a quick guide to the six authors who made the grade.

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Related Topix: Alternative, World News, India, Columbia University, New York, Ireland,

Mon Sep 08, 2008

Scoop

AgResearch Attack Misleading

Tuesday, 9 September 2008, 9:27 am Press Release: GE Free NZ AgResearch's press statement attacking criticism of its application for GM animals is misleading and deliberately underplays serious issues.

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Related Topix: Alternative, Agriculture, Science

Sat Sep 06, 2008

The Age

All the revivals of TV shows from 1994.

The TV show 90210 isn't the only revival of a 1990s relic. Guy Blackman parties like it's 1994 again as he lists all the revivals from the year that defined the decade.

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Related Topix: Dance, Deee-Lite, Alternative

Tue Sep 02, 2008

Total Drek

Sarah Palin: The Drek Take

Or, the thoughts of several frustrated intellectuals on Sociology, Gaming, Science, Politics, Science Fiction, Religion, and whatever the hell else strikes their fancy.

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Related Topix: Alternative, Blog News, US Governors, Sarah Palin, US News

Mon Sep 01, 2008

SF Site

Incandescence by Greg Egan

Greg Egan Greg Egan was born in Perth, Western Australia, in 1961. He attended the University of Western Australia, graduating with a Bachelor of Science.

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Related Topix: Australia, World News, Travel, Australia Travel, Alternative

Thu Aug 28, 2008

Buzzle.com

Brian Garvin: Fact or Fiction?

Find out the shocking truth with relation to Brian Garvin and see if he is ideal for you at this time.

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Related Topix: Alternative, Orange County, CA, Orange County Metro, Placentia, CA, Corona, CA

Sun Aug 24, 2008

Curve

Back to School: 100 Great Books to Buy

Our shelves are sagging under the weight of all the fabulous books we haven't been able to squeeze onto our pages.

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Related Topix: Alternative, Ithaca College

Sat Aug 23, 2008

Space Ref

Video: Astrobiology Rap

STATUS REPORT Date Released: Friday, August 22, 2008 Source: Astrobiology Magazine - Comments Tune in for the all new 'Astrobiology Rap', written by Jonathan Chase for the latest Astrobiology Magazine European ...

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Related Topix: Alternative

Sat Aug 16, 2008

Salon.com

The Newer Deal: The path to a Democratic supermajority

Virginia Woolf was wrong when she wrote, in her 1924 essay "Character in Fiction," that "on or around December 10, 1910, human nature changed." But there is no doubt that at some point between 2004 and 2008 ...

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Related Topix: Alternative, Roosevelt, UT, Opinion

Thu Aug 14, 2008

Colorado Springs Independent

Stranger Than Fiction

Police in Troy, Wis., identified Paul Crowell, 22, as the one who stole a Taser from a patrol car after he posted a video online showing him and his father, Paul Dupey, shocking each other with the stolen ...

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Related Topix: Alternative, New York

Tue Aug 12, 2008

London Free Press

Master of his universe

Colourful, curmudgeonly and confrontational, Harlan Ellison is one of the 10 "masters" involved in Masters of Science Fiction.

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Related Topix: Brian Dennehy, Action TV, Lost, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Alternative, Science Fiction TV

Sun Aug 10, 2008

Kirkus Reviews

Fiction

Atkins, Charles ASHES, ASHES August 15, 2008 - When he was four years old, Richard Glash's father killed his adulterous mother.

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Related Topix: Alternative

Fri Aug 08, 2008

Aversion

The Brixton Riot - Sudden Fiction EP

Here's a word to all the budding rock bands on the block and beyond: Everyone, and we mean everyone is influenced by The Clash.

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Related Topix: Punk, Rancid, Alternative, The Clash

Thu Aug 07, 2008

PrimeNewswire

What Happens When Man Plays God? -- New Science Fiction Novel Tells...

Imagine a time in the far distant future where Earth is not the only place we can call home.

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Related Topix: Alternative

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