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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

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It funds primarily organizations that serve the New York City metropolitan area or New York State. This first grant allowed us to pilot a Bookshare outreach project in the New York metro area, with a de facto focus on senior citizens with vision loss.

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The Kindle: Pretty Cool!

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I bought my Kindle on the first day of availability, and received it the day before Thanksgiving (2007). It goes pretty fast on the New York Times, but I wonder about being on a plane wishing it had downloaded something already when the wireless needs to be off. It's comfortable to hold and to read.

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Colombia’s “False Positives�

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The ugly truth is out, and it is being picked up by international media that can hardly be accused of cozying up to the guerrilla, such as the New York Times. It is they who do the actual killing of the "hired hands" and then dress them up and arm them as guerrilla members fallen in combat.

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Understanding Income Inequality

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I met her last year at KentPresents , a brand-new conference organized by the incredible duo of Ben and Donna Rosen. Janet is also a professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), and she runs a satellite office of LIS there. family structure?

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

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New York Every year, social entrepreneurs and donors (along with a whole lot of other folks) converge on New York City. I started doing this back in 2007 , when we won our first big federal contract for Bookshare, to take it from 3,000 students back then to more than 350,000 students now.

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