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Tom Fort forwarded this article from the L.A. Times about a contest to encourage rare book collecting among college students:Forget the frat party, there's book collecting to be done(latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2010/02/college-book-collecting.html)

Dennis Tucker forwarded this "inspirational story from Columbia --- related not to numismatics, but to books..."Teaching kids to read from the back of a burro(www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/02/25/cnnheroes.soriano/index.html?hpt=C1)

Another E-Sylum reader sends this story about a ceremony in Austin, TX, noting that:"... toward the end of the story; man receives three challenge coins, first person to get them from the three agencies that issue them"Austin holds moment of silence for plane attack(www.kvue.com/news/City-Holds-Moment-of-Silence-in-Attack-85362197.html)