William Morrow

Stuffing reborn as dumplings in a rich turkey stew

If your house is anything like mine, there's never much dressing or stuffing left after Thanksgiving dinner. And what's left always succumbs to strategic stuffing surveys -- otherwise known as repeated raids on the fridge.

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Antietam Changes War's Scope

America's Bloodiest Day Leads to Emancipation In the Civil War, the Battle of Antietam was a Confederate gamble that ended in a bloody stalemate. After defeating two Federal armies in the summer of 1862, Confederate General...

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Prepare ahead to make your Thanksgiving dishes extra special

Got your stuffing? Start thinking now about what you can prepare or make ahead so things aren't so harried in the kitchen on Thanksgiving Day. Rick Rodgers, known as Mr. Thanksgiving in the food world, travels the country this...

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New coffee-table book roundup proves ripe for flipping

Everyone loves a good, gossipy secret, and now you can have a whole mess of them by your couch. "PostSecret: Confessions on Life, Death, and God" (William Morrow) by Frank Warren is another in a series of compilations of...

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More freaky findings and a global warming brouhaha

By JAMES PRESSLEY • Bloomberg News • November 15, 2009 Chicago hookers work overtime around the Fourth of July holiday, suicide bombers should buy life insurance, and capuchin monkeys have learned to use money to acquire Jell-O...

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Best-sellers week of Nov. 8-14, 2009

1. "Ford County: Stories" by John Grisham (Doubleday) 2. "The Lost Symbol" by Dan Brown (Doubleday) 3. "Kindred in Death" by J.D. Robb (Putnam Adult) 4. "The Gathering Storm (Wheel of Time)" by Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson...

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Weekend events celebrate legacy of ‘Our Nig’ writer

MILFORD – What does a beautiful Hollywood actress have in common with Harriet Wilson, a 19th century African-American novelist? Quite a lot, actually. Victoria Rowell, who has been in several movies and received three daytime...

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Clearwire: 'Google Believes in Us' (at Seeking Alpha)

by: Larry Dignan November 11, 2009 | about: ) has a larger war chest, but still lacks a significant subscriber base for its WiMax, or 4G, wireless services. Those were some of the takeaways as Clearwire CEO William Morrow put...

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Elizabeth Kolbert: Is there a quick fix for the climate?

In the eighteen-sixties, the quickest, or at least the most popular, way to get around New York was in a horse-drawn streetcar. The horsecars, which operated on iron rails, offered a smoother ride than the horse-drawn omnibuses...

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Review: 'SuperFreakonomics' as fun as predecessor

Published: Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009 1:42 p.m. MST "SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance," by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, William Morrow, 320 pages,...

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