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Being 13 really is not so easy anymore. I am close to 21, and I remember 13 as an age that was much simpler than it is today. We didn't have iPods, cell phones or other wireless devices. Kids grow up so fast now, and have become a lot more mature in this fast-paced, high-tech world. The first-person essays by the 13-year-olds you published were very impressive. They showed honesty, insight and a high level of writing. Those young authors had a personal story to tell and are trying to find and define themselves...
...seis campa?as presidenciales. Con la ayuda de Sosa, George W. Bush logr? capturar el 40% del voto hispano, un incremento gigantesco sobre el 21% que recibi? Bob Dole en 1996. Ahora parcialmente jubilado, Sosa, de 66 a?os, se dedica a pintar y escribir (su ?ltimo libro, Think and Grow Rich: A Latino Choice, saldr? el pr?ximo a?o), pero si lo llaman en el 2008, volver? al campo de batalla electoral...
...ways to navigate through it. Two of the great navigation milestones were the Web browser and the search engine. Now, with the galloping growth of blogs (some 80,000 new blogs are created every day, according to blog search engine Technorati) and the proliferation of social-network sites, a growing group of companies is trying to figure out how to turn the cacophony of personalized information into usable form - and viable businesses. They call it the Shared, Trust or Referral Economy, and it is the current obsession of every Web company from Amazon to Yahoo!. Consider: in July, Rupert Murdoch...
...Gaza Strip scheduled to begin next week, Palestinian infighting threatens to destroy one of the main benefits of the territorial acquisition. In a deal brokered by the U.S. two months ago, Israel agreed to hand over to the Palestinians hundreds of greenhouses and hothouses in Gaza, where settlers grow everything from celery to exotic flowers. The U.S., in turn, would compensate Israel for the agricultural facilities, which bring in $150 million in earnings and employ some 4,000 people. But the plan is unraveling, thanks to the greed of Palestinian bigwigs. As they delay final approval of the deal...
...guard the evacuated settlements, government officials viewed that as a veiled threat to take over the settlements unless his group got some cash. In the end, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will probably have to pay off all the feuding parties. But by then, the greenhouses--and a chance to grow the Palestinian economy--may have withered on the vine. --By Matt Rees and Jamil Hamad