Graphic novels find home on library shelf
Don t dismiss them as pulp, or a waste of time. Nor think they are simply glossy battlegrounds where super heroes fight hordes of forgettable villains. Comic books have matured, and public libraries, including those in Coos County, are recognizing th...
5.0K - Aug. 7, 2009; scored 436.0

Holocaust jewelry is donated to memorial
JERUSALEM (AP) - As a slave laborer in Auschwitz, Meyer Hack was forced to sort through the tattered clothing stripped off inmates before they were sent to the gas chambers. He gathered valuable belongings hidden inside the clothes, stuffed them in a...
3.3K - Jun. 16, 2009; scored 436.0

Obama calls for 2-state solution
WEIMAR, Germany (AP) President Barack Obama toured a World War II concentration camp today after prodding the international community to redouble efforts toward separate Israeli and Palestinian states in hopes of resolving a conflict fueled by the ...
5.7K - Jun. 5, 2009; scored 778.0

Vatican defends pope from Israeli criticism
JERUSALEM - The Vatican defended the pope today from a growing chorus of Israeli critics who accused the German-born Benedict XVI of failing to express enough remorse for the Holocaust - a controversy that threatened to eclipse a papal pilgrimage aim...
4.0K - May. 12, 2009; scored 1000.0

Wife of face transplant donor speaks
BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) - The wife of a Massachusetts man whose tissue was donated for the nation's second face transplant said her husband told her before heart transplant surgery that he wanted to donate his organs if he didn't survive the operation....
1.7K - Apr. 15, 2009; scored 436.0

Nazi find sheds light on Egypt's sensitive past
CAIRO (AP) Nazi hunters urged Egypt on Friday to come clean about how much it knew about a fugitive dubbed Dr. Death, who reportedly lived here for decades until he died in 1992. But Egypt has long kept a strict silence about former Nazis reporte...
7.1K - Feb. 7, 2009; scored 563.0

Unborn offers up more laughs than scares
The Kabbalah. Hot college students. An abandoned mental institution. Gary Oldman. Jogging. Twins. Nazi scientists. A suicidal mother. A lost blue mitten. What do these things have in common? They re all pieces in the convoluted mythology of The Unbo...
2.4K - Jan. 9, 2009; scored 436.0

Anger, sadness over a Holocaust survivor s fabricated story that led to cancellation of book
NEW YORK (AP) It s the latest story that touched, and betrayed, the world. Herman Rosenblat and his wife are the most gentle, loving, beautiful people, literary agent Andrea Hurst said Sunday, anguishing over why she, and so many others, were take...
1.2K - Dec. 29, 2008; scored 436.0