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these wonderful 'book sculptures' of Anne Frank, Vincent van Gogh, Louis van Gaal and Kader Abdollah to celebrate (auto)biography during Dutch Book Week. The pieces of art, made from the books themselves, turn into 3-dimensional sculptures of the faces of each person as the pages are fanned.

Here is the one for Anne Frank, featuring her diary:

Written Portraits: Dutch Book week campaign

Via birdie on LISNews.

See what happens when you lift a passage from an encyclopaedia without any critical thinking?

This is also an example of the lack of proactive diplomacy in the Bush Administration.

U.S. Apologizes for `Insulting' Berlusconi at G-8

Copy a not-so-neutral encyclopaedia article on the biography of one of your staunchest supporters, then distribute it to White House staff in preparation for one of the year's biggest conferences, and sit back and watch the media flak. Someone's head's going to roll over this one.

What if you were given one more day?

Brain-injured firefighter's brief awakening recounted

In 1995 Donny Herbert, a firefighter, was injured when a roof collapsed during a fire, robbing his brain of oxygen. For a decade he lay in a bed with minimal brain function. And then, one day, he woke up, talking non-stop. His doctor had used a combination of drugs used to treat Parkinson's, depression, and ADHD to try to stimulate his brain. His three oldest boys had grown to adulthood in his absence. His youngest had grown from toddler to teenager and could sit down and talk to his father in-depth for the first time.

The following days were nowhere near as prolific, but were full of hope. And then Herbert fell and his brain suffered bleeding, and he lapsed back into the state he had been in, finally succumbing to pneumonia and high fever in 2006.

Now a book chronicles their story. It is a bittersweet story, of course. But that one day gave them closure and hope. What would you do if you were given one more day with a loved one you'd thought you'd lost forever?