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							  This week, OverDrive itself will host its own conference to help libraries deal with a massive onslaught of patrons clamoring to check out books on their Kindles. Can embattled public institutions handle such a drastic change?  
							
							 
						
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							 It may be a 3D movie set in a world populated by computer-animated blue-skinned natives, but this isn't  Avatar . 
							
							 
						
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							  As soon as President Barack Obama began waffling about naming Elizabeth Warren director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the Democratic rumor mill began churning about Warren as a potential 2012 challenger to Republican US Senator Scott Brown.  
							
							 
						
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							   While we all await the inevitable "Last Days of Amy Winehouse" report from  Rolling Stone , let's take a breather and remember the voice. It was slow, smoky, insinuating, sweet-and-sour, and seemed to conjure a handful of jazz-and-soul divas in a syllable...    
							
							 
						
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							   Indeed much has changed since the historic and genre-defining Newport Folk Festival resumed in 1986 after a 15-year hiatus.   
							
							 
						
					 
				 
			 
			
				
					
					
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							 Local musicians perform and artists gather and display their wares at Allston DIY Fest at Ringer Park on July 23, 2011. 
							
							 
						
					 
				 
			 
			
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