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A New Ice Age Comes to Smith   A Global Lesson in Ecosystems   Oh-So-Clubby   Commentary: Her Résumé Will Say 'Leader' ............................   NewsSmith is published by the Smith College Office of College Relations for alumnae, staff, students and friends. We welcome your comments and suggestions; please click here to send e-mail. ...........................   Editor: Jan McCoy Ebbets Art Director and Web design: John Gerard Eue M.A. '94 Contributing staff: Cathy Brooks, Amanda Darling '99, Ann E. Shanahan '59, John Sippel, Eric Sean Weld Principal photography: Jim Gipe ...........................   Smith College Notice of Nondiscrimination

One of the glories of the Mortimer Rare Book Room: a 1430 French book of hours, inscribed by hand on parchment.   Hardly anyone sees a rosy future for the book. After all, it faces major challenges on at least three fronts: the social (who has time for serious reading?), the economic (the publishing industry's blind lust for blockbusters) and the technological (fierce competition from a growing list of other, more overtly seductive media). Yet if we are witnessing a twilight of the book, it is an unusually bright one at Smith College.

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