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"It's a cliché to say that America is Comeback Nation, so instead, let's acknowledge the familiar ritual that Tiger Woods has now embarked upon. When celebrities screw up, there's a well-worn path they must travel before they're welcomed back by the famously forgiving American public. There has to be contrition and cleansing, and it has to look like something significant has changed. Usually some time has to elapse while the Fallen One hovers in purgatory, to signify sacrifice (although Letterman seems to have skipped this step). It's kind of like going through a carwash: You go in dirty, get hosed down and battered around, emerge dripping wet, then air-dry for a little while until you're good as new."

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"…Turning a profit through social networks involves unprecedented business savvy, and even the social network powerhouses like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube struggle with business models that can bring about a tangible return.

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There is a sales potential to social networking, but profiting means reaching beyond the traditional business paradigm. Social networks enable new ways of reaching people, which can still be lucrative. Scholarship programs and non-profit programs are one example. "

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"Social media moves so fast, it's hard to keep up. Here are the week's top stories in scan-friendly format:

• Dell Tweets Itself $6.5 Million in Sales
• Because of Google, Watch What You Say On Facebook
• Social Networking Helps Win DARPA Balloon Challenge
• Twitter Opens Up Full Stream To All Developers, Has 50,000 Apps

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Israeli army uses social media tools to improve image http://tinyurl.com/ygxramm

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On Twitter: http://twitter.com/PalestineNote/status/6368680524
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Consumer Behavior – useful for behavioral finance and behavioral economics

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"BBC World Service has agreed a deal with Stitcher.com that will see World Service content made available to users of the mobile phone-based application across the globe.

Stitcher is a free mobile phone "Smart Radio" application, available on a number of handsets, including the iPhone, Palm Pre and Blackberry"

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http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/10/21/balloon-boy-games-soar-exposing-a-subtle-industry-shift/


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from http://monopolycitystreets.com/

"Welcome to Monopoly City Streets. You versus the world in the biggest live game of MONOPOLY in history!

On the 9th SEPTEMBER, a world of property empire building on an unimaginable scale will be launched! A live worldwide game of MONOPOLY using Google Maps as the game board. The goal is simple. Play to beat your friends and the world to become the richest property magnate in existence.

Own any street in the world. Build humble houses, crazy castles and stupendous skyscrapers to collect rent. Use MONOPOLY Chance Cards to sabotage your mates by building Hazards on their streets.

Which strategy will you employ? Determined drive? Ingenious daring? Intelligent caution? Will you thrive under the pressure of a fast growing global property empire – or will you crumble? Find out if you’ll thrive, or even survive, in the amazing world of MONOPOLY City Streets. It's going to be epic fun!"

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"Two and half million people in India are HIV positive. But it is a subject people do not like to talk about.The stigma associated with the illness means there is a lack of understanding about the virus. So India's health authorities are using catchy commercials to spread a "safe-sex" message.Al Jazeera's Hamish Macdonald reports from New Delhi." (Aljazeera on YouTube)

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"Lebanese singer Haifa Wehbe is the most dangerous Arabic celebrity in cyberspace, according to research from McAfee. The security company found that Wehbe was the Arabic celebrity whose name was used most often to draw web surfers to websites with unsafe and malicious content.

Singer Wael Kfoury was the second most commonly used celebrity name for unsafe sites in the Middle East, with Paris Hilton ranking as number one worldwide." read complete article : Haifa Wehbe most dangerous Arabic celebrity online | LebSpy.com

(2007 news but worth to remind society on the dangers of clicking on celebrity-related links on some of the websites.

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"Pornography addiction is a health hazard that western culture is only just starting to recognize. This program demystifies the ... all » misconceptions that pornography is harmless and is based on the latest scientific facts. Interviews with sociologists, psychologists, scientists and law enforcement officials detail the negative side effects of pornography consumption. This program is guaranteed to help you or your loved one take the first step to understanding, discussing and addressing this secret problem of pornography addiction.." (YouTube) adcpvideo, October 03, 2007)

read complete article : YouTube - A Drug Called Pornography, Part 1/7. Understanding

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Hulu - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Good News/Bad News - Americas Recession

…thanks Wayne

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	more photos on http://www.waleg.com/photos/index.php?cat=80

 Bab-Al-Hara is a Syrian drama phenomenon that is watched by millions of Arabs.

  "The Syrian actress Laila Al Atrash, who plays “Lutfiyah h” in the famous Syrian drama series “Bab Al Harah” (The Neighborhood Gate) said that she is the fruit of the drama series." (Al-Bawaba http://albawaba.com/en/entertainment,%20music/251803)

Baba-Al-Hara movie game..

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RT @channelNvideo

from ttcnow2008 on YouTube “This is one of our two new online films which form part of our summer campaign. They have been designed to be hard-hitting and to challenge the stereotype that links people with mental illness and violence. Help us get the message out there by passing this on to your friends.”

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World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo

thanks to travisconrad for twittering this.

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Annahar Lebanese newspaper has a YouTube channel.

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Listen to Sawtelshaab online (for Lebanese friends)  http://www.sawtashaab.com/

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 Sham FM online

Great online radio for Fairuz music. Thank you Suhel! Listen Now.

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How well do you know the King Of Pop? Take the quiz on CNN

Test your Michael Jackson knowledge - CNN.com

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"Over his career Michael Jackson produced 13 No. 1 hits and earned 13 Grammys Awards, not to mention a legion of fans around the world. Below are eight of his biggest hits, with commentary by Sia Michel, The Times's pop music editor. Vote for your all-time favorite and tell us why here."

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Films: Chicken a la Carte by Ferdinand Dimadura

Chicken a la Carte : Director: Ferdinand Dimadura | Genre: Drama | Produced In: 2005

Synopsis: This film is about the hunger and poverty brought about by Globalization. There are 10,000 people dying everyday due to hunger and malnutrition. This short film shows a forgotten portion of the society. The people who live on the refuse of men to survive. What is inspiring is the hope and spirituality that never left this people.

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 Pink Floyd Ultimate Fan Page - the ultimate Pink Floyd online portal

The Pink Floyd Archives

The Pink Floyd Archives is an ongoing archive of Pink Floyd items for the purpose of documenting the history of Pink Floyd. It was started in the mid-seventies by music historian and collector Vernon Fitch to provide a centralized place for Pink Floyd information and collectibles. The Archives includes collections of numerous Floydian historical items, including records, singles, CDs, tapes, videos, posters, tour programs, back stage passes, promotional materials, books, magazines, photos, autographs, etc

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"On 10 Feb 2009, at 18:49, PR Newswire wrote:

Al-Ahram, Egypt's number one publishing house with over 40 publications and a distribution of 1.5 million for flagship daily newspaper Al-Ahram, has embarked on a major initiative for their publishing re-modernisation with KnowledgeView Ltd. "

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BEIRUT: ArabAd magazine named Mustapha Assad, CEO of Publicis, as the 2009 man of the year for his distinguished advertising career since 1967. "ArabAd's choice of Mustapha Assad as man of the year 2009 is the tradition of honoring those personalities who have cemented the foundation of the communications industry and whose recognition is, but a token of their contribution that will always shine and light the way for future generations," the publisher of ArabAd's publication Walid Azzi said in its lead editorial."

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"A giant ant colony pumped full of cement,and then excavated reveals one of Mother Natures marvellous wonders.
We've seen what these giant ant mounds look like above ground but this is an incredible view of what the structures looks like underground - which some have called a wonder of the world."

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(i don’t usually paste an entire blog post but this is one is really worth to store.

15 great myth-busting, women vs men stat articles about Games | PERSONALIZE MEDIA Gary Hayes writes: 

“PDF report by Pew Internet. “Adults and Video Games”

• More than half - 53% - of all American adults play video games of some kind
• Independent of all other factors, younger adults are still more likely to play games.
• Among older adults 65+ who play video games, nearly a third play games everyday, a significantly larger percentage than all younger players, of whom about 20% play everyday.
• Gaming consoles are the most popular for young adults: 75% of 18-29 year old gamers play on consoles, compared with 68% who use computers
• Computers are the most popular among the total adult gaming population, with 73% of adult gamers using computers to play games, compared with 53% console users, 35% who using cell phones, and 25% using portable gaming devices.

“Games Women Play” Sep 08 from the Edge

• Online casual games bring in 150 million women every month– roughly half the population of the United States.
• Nearly two-thirds of women casual players online are over 35.
• Women play casual games 5 to 10 hours per day – significantly greater than the 7.4 hours per week by a survey by the Casual Gaming Association.
• Competition, rather than simple relaxation or escapism, motivates them to play.
• Female players who are 18 and older represent one third of the game-playing population while male players who are 17 or younger represent only 18 percent of casual gamers
• Playing casual games is often the first thing women do after waking. They check their ranking and play for on average of 2 ½ hours every morning.
• Women engage in trivia games with the family members but play action games alone.
• Most women players are married or in a relationship and have children.

Online Gaming Popularity Grows Among Youngest and Oldest Female Segments in the U.S. ComScore report.

• Significant user growth among teenage girls between the ages of 12 and 17 and women between the ages of 55 and 64.
• Growth in the 12 – 17 age range was 55% compared to the total female online gaming audience rate of 27%
• The over-55 age range grew 43%.

BBC 23 December 2008 “Battle of the Sexes”

• It found that the most hard-core players are female, that gamers are healthier than average, and that game playing is an increasingly social activity.
• Despite gaming being seen as a male activity, female players now make up about 40% of the gaming population.
• The study (detailed link here from Wiley interscience) looked at gender differences in more than 2,400 gamers playing EverQuest II.

Industry Facts from Entertainment Software Association ESA

• The average game player is 35 years old and has been playing games for 13 years.
• The average age of the most frequent game purchaser is 40 years old.
• Forty percent of all game players are women. In fact, women over the age of 18 represent a significantly greater portion of the game-playing population (33 percent) than boys age 17 or younger (18 percent).
• In 2008, 26 percent of Americans over the age of 50 played video games, an increase from nine percent in 1999
• Sixty-three percent of parents believe games are a positive part of their children’s lives.

Women Embrace Casual Games from RedHerring “Casual Gamers Anything But”

• Spend as much as 20 hours each week playing their favorite games.
• More than 70 percent said they play at night, and 58 percent have no children living at home.
• Results from the Harris research reveal that 67 percent of the women over 40 who play games do so at least four times per week. Nearly half play every day.
• Some 60 percent say they would rather play a casual game than talk on the phone or do projects around the home, while nearly 50 percent said they would rather play a casual game than go to a movie.

BBC 17 Sep 2008 “Online gamers are not unhealthy“

• The “couch potato” image of computer gamers is unfounded, with many in better than average shape, claim US researchers.
• More than 7,000 players of the online game EverQuest II were quizzed about their health by scientists.
• They found gamers’ body mass index (BMI) tended to be lower than the US average - with many taking “proper” exercise more than once a week.

Driving Force in Video Gaming: Women and Baby Boomers. Reported on PC World Aug 2008. IBISWorld claims that:

• 38 percent of US gamers are women
• The average player is 35 years old
• 24 percent are over 50.
• The percentage of female video gamers climbed from 33 to 38 percent in five years bolstered in part by Nintendo’s Wii, but also “interactive group games” such as Singstar, Rock Band, and Lips, as well as The Sims, The Movies, Nintendogs and NeoPets.

Demographics of the top 3 games on Facebook - from Bret on Social Games

• Scramble which is the only game among the top three developers dominated by women(63%).
• The age of Zynga players is spread more evenly among the three age segments, but with ~50% in the 22-25 age bracket.
• Blake Commagere’s Monsters games also have ~50% of their users in the 22-25 age bracket.
• They also have a fairly even male-female ratio.

Second Life demographics and usage - reported by Lost in Bananaverse

• 83.79% of the population is 25 years and older, and the older users spend far more time in Second Life than younger users
• Females spent nearly twice as long online in Second Life as males. Females make up 45.5% of the Second Life population.
• Total user hours for April totaled 29,069,684 hours
• Those 45 and older continuing to be the heaviest users on average.
  • 45 and older: 70.17 hours per user per month
  • 35-44: 66.06 hours per user per user per month
  • 25-34: 55.55 hours per user per user per month
  • 18-24: 37.84 hours per user per user per month
  • Teen grid: 24.67 hours per user per user per month

The demographics of World of Warcraft (useful but old 2005 data from Nick Yee)

• The average age of the WoW player is 28.3
• 84% of players are male
• 16% are female. Female players are significantly older (32.5) than male players (28.0)
• On average, they spend 22.7 hours per week playing WoW.
• There are no gender differences in hours played per week.

ESSENTIAL FACTS ABOUT THE COMPUTER AND VIDEO GAME INDUSTRY 2008 SALES, DEMOGRAPHIC AND USAGE DATA (full report from ESA at Scribd)

• 13 is the average number of years adult gamers have been playing computer or video games. Among most frequent gamers, adult males average 15 years for game playing, females for 12 years.
• 59% of gamers play games with other gamers in person. This is a rise from 56% in 2007 and from 51% in 2006.
• The average age of the most frequent game purchaser is: 40
• 56% of online game players are male 44% are female.
• What is the One Type of Online Game Played Most Often?
  • 12% Other
  • 47% Puzzle/Board/Game Show/Trivia/Card
  • 16% Action/Sports/ Strategy/Role-Play
  • 14% Downloadable Games Such as Bejeweled and Diner Dash
  • 11% Persistent Multi-Player Universe

Women are hardcore gamers from bNet in 2006

• Electronic Arts’ casual game site Pogo.com draws 11 million unique users per month. Fifty-five percent of those are women.
• On the subscription side, 75 percent of the more than 1 million subscribers are women over the age of 35.

Study: Women Gamers Outnumber Men in 25-34 Age Group - from GameDaily 2006

• Consumer Electronics Association study found that 65 percent of women in the 25-34 age bracket play video games, while only 35 percent of men in that group said that they play video games. The key factor involved with these findings is the increasing popularity of casual games, especially among women. (These casual titles are typically found on web portals like Yahoo!, AOL Games, PopCap Games, EA’s Pogo.com and elsewhere.)
• Women were found to be slightly less likely than men in the 25-34 bracket to play traditional console games on systems like PlayStation or Xbox.

Old (2000) but interesting item on ‘gender bending’ in games from womengamers.com

• 6% of subjects play female characters for 25% or less of their gaming time
• 24% play females for 26-50% of their gaming time
• 15% play females for 51-75% of their gaming time
• 42% play females for 76-100% of their gaming time
• 12% did not answer this question “

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Scientists are uncovering a “pill” through wine against aging or at least a mechanism that slows the aging of a person for some ten years or more. CBS 60 minutes has the documentary displayed below. Oh by the way, imaging what would happen to the US Social Security system if that happens. The old (God-bless) will live longer but will the young still  be able to pay the price of the current social security system by financially contributing to the system for more retired people but who would manage to live longer? Or, would the elderly be forced to work more in exchange for a “pill”?

Fountain Of Youth In A Wine Rx?, Researchers Tell Morley Safer Red Wine Substance Resveratrol Could One Day Lengthen Lives - CBS News writes:

“(CBS) Seventeen years ago, 60 Minutes first examined the so-called French paradox, which suggested that the French - despite a high fat diet and high consumption of wine - had a remarkably low incidence of heart disease, compared with Americans. Most researchers agreed that there was something in the wine that offered protection, and a few years later, even the highly cautious federal dietary guidelines say that moderate consumption of red wine can be beneficial.
Now, scientists across the country have identified a substance in red wine called resveratrol that they believe might do more than just protect the heart, but could - in very high concentrations - significantly extend life by preventing a number of age related illnesses. If they're right, we all may soon be taking a pill that could give us an extra decade or two of healthy old age.”

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Time Running Out For A Two-State Solution?, 60 Minutes: Growing Number Of Israelis, Palestinians Say Two-State Solution Is No Longer Possible - CBS News 

from CBS News:

“(CBS) Getting a peace deal in the Middle East is such a priority to President Obama that his first foreign calls on his first day in office were to Arab and Israeli leaders. And on day two, the president made former Senator George Mitchell his special envoy for Middle East peace. Mr. Obama wants to shore up the ceasefire in Gaza, but a lasting peace really depends on the West Bank where Palestinians had hoped to create their state. The problem is, even before Israel invaded Gaza, a growing number of Israelis and Palestinians had concluded that peace between them was no longer possible, that history had passed it by. For peace to have a chance, Israel would have to withdraw from the West Bank, which would then become the Palestinian state.
It’s known as the "two-state" solution. But, while negotiations have been going on for 15 years, hundreds of thousands of Jewish settlers have moved in to occupy the West Bank. Palestinians say they can't have a state with Israeli settlers all over it, which the settlers say is precisely the idea.”

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"Satellite television has reached even conservative parts of the Arab world, where hundreds of programs are now available. The Middle East’s MBC-4 began airing “The Oprah Winfrey Show” more than four years ago, and the program now reaches about 6 million viewers in the Arab world each day.

Though aimed at an American audience, the program has brought formerly taboo topics — like reproduction or homosexuality — into discussion.

Worldfocus correspondent Kristen Gillespie reports from Jordan on the ”Oprah effect” in the Middle East.

Read her blog post about her reporting experience here: Watching Oprah in a Syrian refugee camp."

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"The death of the video game arcade has not, alas, been greatly exaggerated. For gamers older than 30, memories of plugging endless quarters into Street Fighter II, Mortal Kombat and After Burner cabinets are just that: memories. In most of the world, arcades with stand-up cabinets and pinball machines have been replaced by high-powered home consoles.

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That's the topic of a new book by Brian Ashcraft, who now resides in Osaka writing about video games and technology for gaming blog Kotaku, Wired magazine and other outlets.

The Dallas native has penned perhaps the first coffee table book for gamers: "Arcade Mania: The Turbo-Charged World of Japan's Game Centers."

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NEW YORK, NY, September 23, 2008 - Mind Evolve Software, a leading publisher of brain-training software, today announced the launch of Mind Sparke Brain Fitness Pro. This new consumer software is the most sophisticated brain-training application on the market and employs the only training method scientifically proven* to make users smarter.

Working-memory and fluid intelligence compete for brain power; by training and strengthening a user's working-memory Brain Fitness Pro increases the processing power available to solve problems. The software progressively taxes the brain, pushing the user to remember and process visual and auditory information under time pressure. This novel approach increases intelligence, reverses the adverse effects of aging, boosts test scores, and improves job performance.

"We're on the cusp of a new era in brain fitness," said Martin Walker, Founder and CEO of Mind Evolve Software. "It's always been assumed that we were stuck with the brain-power we're born with; but with Brain Fitness Pro people can improve their raw ability to think. It's a big step forward."

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According to the London daily Elaph, the songs “Bahibak Ya Libnan” (I Love You Lebanon), “Baghdad”, “Ya Beirut” (Oh Beirut), “Bahlif Besamaha” (I Swear On Its Skies), “Raje’ Yetamar Lebnan” (Lebanon Will Be Rebuilt) are among and the many songs that show the love of one’s country and being attached to the land and the people of one’s country.

These are some of the many songs that are stuck in people’s hearts throughout the Arab world for some time and then are forgotten.
Since the war on Gaza started many songs were released and it is hard to see the point of these songs, because for sure the people in Gaza won’t be hearing them and if they did they will not change the reality of their everyday life. Some artists believe that instead of spending time on useless songs, the money should be donated to the people of Gaza in order to get food and medical supplies which they are in desperate need of.

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“This song is a loose translation, by Jeanette Turner, of the anti-war poem Kız ÇocuÄŸu (The Little Girl) by Turkey’s most important modern poet, Nazim Hikmet (1901-63), who was persecuted and imprisoned for his outspoken Marxist views.

The story is told by the ghost of a seven-year-old girl, who died when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima ten years earlier.

It was recorded by Pete Seeger in 1962, using the tune of “The Great Silkie”, and this is the version used in later recordings.

Probably the best-known performance is by The Byrds on their album “Fifth Dimension” (1966). It has also been recorded by This Mortal Coil on their album Blood (1991) and recently by Bruce Springsteen. “

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"For young people, however, the internet now rivals television as a main source of national and international news. Nearly six-in-ten Americans younger than 30 (59%) say they get most of their national and international news online; an identical percentage cites television. In September 2007, twice as many young people said they relied mostly on television for news than mentioned the internet (68% vs. 34%)."

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Listen to Joan Cooney, co-creater of Sesame Street, on National Public Radio

Joan Ganz Cooney is co-creater of Sesame Street and the Children's Television Workshop. When Sesame Street made its TV debut in 1969, it was thanks to Cooney. She had laid out the vision, hustled the money and assembled the creative team including Jim Henson, to create one of the most successful television shows in TV history.

'Sesame Street' Changed Television For Children : NPR

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It always make me smile when i see western journalists on TV talking about their experience in Iraq or the middle east. They look very serious and they talk with great confidence which makes me wonder. where do they get it from?

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They were in parcels each containing small packets of manuscript wrapped in tissue paper on which the subjects had been noted in Darwin's hand. They were presumably just as Darwin left them, and accordingly this arrangement was preserved when they were bound, the volumes now representing as closely as possible Charles Darwin's papers in the order in which he left them. Beside the original papers there were copies of a large number of letters to Darwin, collections of press-cuttings, etc.

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