Dan Brown News
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Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is back. Dan Brown’s latest thriller, the Dante-inspired “Inferno,” puts Langdon in a hospital bed with no memory of how he wound up there. Still, the clever professor is the only one who can figure out the doomsday puzzle, the first macabre piece of which is sewn into his bloody tweed jacket.
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The Rockefeller Foundation marked the centennial of its founding with the announcement this morning of a $100 million global disaster-preparation fund aimed primarily at helping cities handle climate-related or man-made disasters.
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A Ferrari that competed in the 1953 Le Mans 24-hour race and another that John Lennon bought just after passing his driving test are coming up for auction as prices rise for classic models by the Italian maker.
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“Kinky Boots” and other top Tony Award contenders saw ticket sales jump last week as Broadway overall grossed $24.3 million.
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Movies about musicians starring Justin Timberlake and Matt Damon are among the 20 contenders for the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, where Steven Spielberg will steer a nine-member jury.
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Even the smallest state in the world can’t escape the ills of big government.
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Pope Benedict XVI flew out of Vatican City for the last time as pontiff as he prepared to become the first head of the Catholic church to abdicate in 600 years.
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As enigmas go, Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code” has nothing on Bach’s “The Art of Fugue.”
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Johnson & Johnson, the world’s biggest maker of consumer health products, will let generic-drug companies make and distribute copies of its HIV medicine Prezista in sub-Saharan Africa and poor countries.
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A masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci hidden for 450 years behind a false wall in the center of Florence, a clue hidden in plain sight that tens of thousands of tourists passed by every year: It sounds like the plot of a Dan Brown novel. Indeed, that’s what some people say it is.
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