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TOKYO (AP) -- Last Sunday was the six-month anniversary of the day the massive earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan's northeast coast. Some 20,000 people are dead or missing. More than 800,000 homes were completely or partially destroyed. The disaster crippled businesses, roads and infrastructure. The Japanese Red Cross Society estimates that 400,000 people were displaced. Half a year later, there are physical signs of progress. Much of the debris has been cleared away or at least organized into big piles. In the port city of Kesennuma, many of the boats carried inland by the tsunami have been removed. Most evacuees have moved out of high school gyms and into temporary shelters or apartments. Last week the Kyodo News agency distributed an amazing group of combination photographs showing three scenes. The first scene is right after the earthquake and tsunami hit, then three months later and finally, how the scene looks now. (44 images)

My gut reaction is that there is and there should be. The documents, while not released on their own accord, do present a historical snapshot of our particular time.

count all the books in the world. There are 129,864,880 of them. At least until Sunday.

One Week | One Tool is a unique summer institute, one that aims to teach participants how to build an open source digital tool for humanities scholarship by actually building a tool, from inception to launch, in a week.

During the week of Sunday July 25 – Saturday July 31, 2010

Sentier Urbain's gardens open to the public starting this week, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9am-4pm. In July and August, the gardens on Panet and Sainte Catherine will be open Tuesday-Sunday. See their website for more info about other "social greening" projects in the Plateau and Montréal Nord.

Introduction to Whose Map is it?

new mapping by artists. Location: Rivington Place Time: 02 Jun – 24 Jul 2010 Tues, Weds, Fri 11am - 6pm Thurs Late opening until 9pm Saturday 12 - 6pm Closed Sunday, Monday Admission: Free

Bearpit Karaoke is a karaoke show that takes place at the stone amphitheatre in the MauerPark in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin every Sunday. Since it's humble beginnings back in February 2009 when founder Joe Hatchiban (not his real name) played to a friend of his and his (the friend's) two children on the Schwedtersteg bridge in the snow, it has grown into a local phenomenon regularly drawing crowds of 1500-2000 people. A weekly must see event for locals aswell as tourists.

Sunday November 13th 1966 – the first man-made dewatering of the American Falls took place in order to allow workmen to clear debris from the upper American channel above the American Falls.

Starting in January 2011, a visitor to NYTimes.com will be allowed to view a certain number of articles free each month; to read more, the reader must pay a flat fee for unlimited access. Subscribers to the print newspaper, even those who subscribe only to the Sunday paper, will receive full access to the site without any additional charge.

Each Sunday I will introduce a tree, and you will have the week to get to know it. Whenever possible, I will mention several locations where it can be found.