As Austin would recount the next day in a piece for McClatchy about sneaking into the city, he received a cursory tour of central Damascus in the car, passing the headquarters of the Mukhabarat, the feared secret police; circling roundabouts; and viewing the charred husk of a bombed-out ...
Americans love to read, and there's no shortage of places to do it given the 116,867 libraries sprinkled throughout the country. The vast majority of these institutions--or 98,460 of them to be exact--are school libraries, found in public and private schools, according to the American Li...