Word: ages
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...basics, then start with an easy-to-use service such as America Online. These services offer e-mail and chat rooms, where several people are online simultaneously and carry on a written conversation. Other seniors like the chat rooms offered by online sites geared to them, such as Third Age (online address: www.thirdage.com) AgeScape www.agescape.com) or SeniorNet www.seniornet.com...
...course, some are still put off by the online world's confusing terminology or by equipment that is hard on arthritic hands. Others are wary of scam artists who prey on their age group. But for many seniors, the Internet has provided a sense of community that they are hungry for. It has given them a new perspective on life...
...started working at the Red Cross at age 14, cleaning CPR mannequins as part of his high school's community service requirement. Eight years later, Navin Narayan '99 has ascended the ranks of the American Red Cross to become its youngest national committee chair ever...
...aware that we constantly discard gargantuan volumes of information without recognizing their worth? In The User Illusion, a didactic tome employing examples from physics to poker, Danish author Tor Norretranders addresses these questions and explores their relationship to human consciousness within the context of a booming Information Age...
...first glance, Norretranders--heralded as Denmark's leading science writer--appears to be simply the latest author dazzled by the brilliant approach of a new millenium. In this finde-de-siecle, so-called Information Age, where URLs serve as book titles, books like The Roaring 2000s are appearing on shelves to herd the masses in the right direction. You can already see them approaching, regiments of technology gurus marching onward with laptops under their arms and PalmPilots in hand, ready to take every bit of information you have and compile it into terabyte-sized chunks...