A professor from the University of California, San Diego, who was researching Benjamin Franklin at the British Library made a discovery on the last day of his trip in 2007: copies of 47 letters by, to and about Franklin that were written in the spring and summer of 1755 and not seen since. The letters are being published in the April issue of The William and Mary Quarterly. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/arts/24arts-BRITISHCOPIE_BRF.html?ref=arts

Use “imply” when something is being suggested without being explicitly stated and “infer” when someone is trying to arrive at a conclusion based on evidence. http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/imply.html
Imply means "to state indirectly." Infer means "to draw a conclusion."
http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000232.htm
Infer is a more assertive word than imply. Choose simpler words if you don’t know which one to use.

A librarian at Oxford's Bodleian Library has unearthed the earliest-known book dust jacket. Dating from 1830, the jacket wrapped a silk-covered gift book, Friendship's Offering. Silk bindings were very vulnerable to wear and tear, so bookselllers would keep them in these wrappers to protect the binding underneath. When you bought the book you would take the wrapper off and put it on your shelves, which is presumably why so few of these covers have survived. Unlike today's dust jackets, wrappers of the early 19th century were used to enfold the book completely, like a parcel. Traces of sealing wax where the paper was secured can still be seen on the Bodleian's discovery, along with pointed creases at the edges where the paper had been folded, showing the shape of the book it had enclosed. The jacket had been separated from its book, and had never been catalogued individually. It remained hidden until the library was contacted by an American scholar of dust jackets looking for the earliest known example.

About a year and a half ago, Harriet Shapiro, who is the head of exhibitions at the New York Society Library, was, in the manner of modern-day researchers everywhere, randomly Googling—looking for information about Marion King, the institution’s longtime librarian, who died in 1976. To Shapiro’s surprise, a link came up to Harvard’s Theodore Roosevelt collection, in which lay a cache of nearly six hundred letters written to King by Edith Kermit Roosevelt. ... The letters spanned the period of Mrs. Roosevelt’s widowhood, beginning in 1920, the year after Theodore Roosevelt died. In them, she requested books to be sent to her home, Sagamore Hill, near Oyster Bay.
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2009/04/20/090420ta_talk_mead

Latin American and South America are not synonyms. Latin America refers to parts of North and South America south of the United States where Romance languages are spoken. www.onpedia.com/dictionary/latin-america

The 10th annual American Lung Association State of the Air report, released on, April 29, 2009. includes a national air quality “report card” that assigns A-F grades to communities across the country. The State of the Air report also ranks cities and counties most affected by the three most widespread types of pollution (ozone—or smog, annual particle pollution, and 24-hour particle pollution levels) and details trends for 900 counties over the past decade.
http://www.lungusa.org/site/c.dvLUK9O0E/b.5116683/k.43EF/State_of_the_Air_2009_Media_Materials.htm
Most polluted by Short-term Particle Pollution is Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA
Most Polluted by Year-Round Particle Pollution is Bakersfield, CA
Most Ozone-Polluted City is Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside, CA
Cleanest City for Short-term Particle Pollution is Alexandria, LA
Cleanest City for Long-term Particle Pollution is Cheyenne, WY
Cleanest City for Ozone Air Pollution is Billings, MT
See 182-page report at http://www.lungusa2.org/sota/2009/SOTA-2009-Full-Print.pdf

German proverbs
Speech is silver; silence is golden.
Never give advice unless asked.
To change and to improve are two different things.
http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/german_proverb_quotes.html

Poets & Writers, Inc., is pleased to announce that Linda Gregg is the recipient of the third annual Jackson Poetry Prize. The $50,000 prize honors an American poet of exceptional talent who has published at least one book of recognized literary merit but has not yet received major national acclaim. http://www.pw.org/about-us/linda_gregg_awarded_jackson_poetry_prize

Linda Gregg biography: http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/931

The adult human body has 206 bones. An infant may have from 300-350 bones at birth. Some of these fuse together as the infant grows. When some bones fuse and become one bone (most obvious examples are in the skull, sacrum and hip bones) the number of overall bones drops to the 206 bones that most adults have. Of the 206 bones in the adult human body, more than half (106) are in the hands and feet. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_bones_are_in_the_human_body