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The Data-Mining's The Thing: Shakespeare Takes Center Stage In The Digital Age

Folger Shakespeare Library director Michael Witmore is using 21st-century tools to analyze the Bard's work. When data-mining techniques borrowed from the sciences and business research were applied to classic Shakespearean plays, surprising discoveries were made.READ»

National Mustard Day

Mustard is, well, cutting the mustard. As more Americans brown-bag lunch and dine at home, sales of the sauce are up. Revenue at market leader French's grew more than 6% last year. But mustard's sometime partner and neme-sis is doing ...READ»

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Lost in Translation?

For decades CliffsNotes has helped students digest the verbosity and virtuosity of Shakespeare's plays. Now the company is extending that approach to a new market with Manga editions of Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth and Romeo and ...READ»