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TODAY'S BOOK: "Benjamin Franklin: An American Life", by Walter Isaacson ((c) 2003)

TODAY'S WEBSITE: www.ebood.co.il I feel kind of obligated to mention this one, as it is administrated by one of the teachers in the school I work in. A truly innovative site, eBood (a pun on the Hebrew word meaning "lost") gives people a central place online to present and claim lost objects, filed into several distinct categories. Available in English as well.

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