A day after the New York Post reported that Borders has agreed
to open its first store in Brooklyn, we're reminded that the company
will also open its first store in the neighboring borough of Queens in
the near future. Yesterday ground was broken for the lifestyle retail
center the Shops at Atlas Park, which will include a Borders, the Times Ledger reported.
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University of Rochester students have joined Books for Baghdad, an effort to send textbooks to the University of Baghdad that was begun in 2004 by Safaa Al-Hamdani, a biology professor at Jacksonville State University, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reported. The first effort resulted in shipments a year ago of 11,000 textbooks and $5,000 worth of supplies to the University of Baghdad's library.
A small but growing group of colleges and universities are participating. Textbooks most sought after cover math, science, technology and medicine, subjects that often are taught in English in the Middle East.
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University of Rochester students have joined Books for Baghdad, an effort to send textbooks to the University of Baghdad that was begun in 2004 by Safaa Al-Hamdani, a biology professor at Jacksonville State University, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reported. The first effort resulted in shipments a year ago of 11,000 textbooks and $5,000 worth of supplies to the University of Baghdad's library.
A small but growing group of colleges and universities are participating. Textbooks most sought after cover math, science, technology and medicine, subjects that often are taught in English in the Middle East.