By Aroonim Bhuyan, Dubai, Nov 20 : The count is out. And a total of 1,323,218 books were read by children between the ages of three and 14 in the course of a two-week campaign in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) aimed at helping the education of children in developing nations.

PURVIS - When Dale Lucus joined the Lamar County Board of Supervisors in 2004, the county owed $18.2 million on a wide-ranging menu that included annual payment on the bond that built a jail to short-term notes on various vehicles and road equipment.

Children in the UAE collectively read 1,323,218 books during the two-week One Million Book Challenge organized by Dubai Cares. Organizers said 141,415 pupils from 159 schools in Al Ain, Ras Al Khaimah, Sharjah, and Dubai participated in the challenge.

Even Canadian retailers are feeling the downturn in consumer spending. For the second quarter of the 2009 fiscal year, Indigo Books & Music Inc. posted web sales in U.S. dollars of $17.1 million, a decrease of 20.9% from web sales of $21.4 million in the prior year.

Books-A-Million, Inc. (NASDAQ:BAMM) today announced that it will provide an online Web simulcast of its fiscal 2009 third quarter conference call ...

It is probably fair to assume that no one is at their best in a custody battle. There is so much at stake: the children's futures and who gets to shape them; which million- pound home goes to whom; and hurt pride - perhaps especially hurt pride. But most people get to keep the details to themselves; not so Madonna and Guy Ritchie, whose every foible and feint is now being picked over by a ...

Shoppers at Books-A-Million stores in Naples can save 10 percent on their purchases and a portion of their purchase will benefit Avow Hospice, a press release states.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.----Books-A-Million, Inc. today announced that it will provide an online Web simulcast of its fiscal 2009 third quarter conference call on Friday, November 21, 2008.