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Little, Brown published Twilight on Oct. 5, 2005. It printed 75,000 copies, a generous but not stupendous number. "All the signs were there, but at the beginning they were modest," Tingley says. "The sales kept getting a little higher each week. It wasn't a gigantic phenomenon overnight - I think people think that now, but it wasn't." Lori Joffs, a stay-at-home mom in Nashville, read it three months later. Like Meyer, she's a Mormon, but she'd put off starting the book because she didn't think a Mormon writer could do vampires. "I read...
...survey directors conducted a national poll between Oct. 30 and Nov. 1 to determine the prevalence of swine flu vaccine shortages and examine the opinions of adults who had tried to obtain the vaccination...
According to Nuni, only $5,025 has been raised to date. Seven-hundred dollars of that sum was raised over the summer by the Undergraduate Council, which turned over the controversial effort to create the center to the SCCF on Oct...
Connecticut enters the postseason 11-4-3 with an at-large bid from the Big East. The Huskies handed Harvard its worst loss of the season on Oct. 14, beating the Crimson, 4-0, in Storrs, Conn...
...Tremonti, Silvio Berlusconi's top economic-policy aide since the media mogul first entered politics promising Thatcherite reforms, has been accused by his critics of adopting a populist strain similar to Sarkozy's. He shocked the Italian establishment with a vigorous Oct. 19 defense of the job for life, which many in the center-left opposition don't even stand up for anymore. "Mobility in itself isn't a value," he told a Milan conference. "The lifetime job is the base on which to build a life and a family. For me, the fundamental objective is stability of work, which...