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...wireless Packer works in big ways, and in little ways too. There's a virtual lost-and-found bulletin board--sweatshirts are a hot item--and another one where kids can post opinions about the war in Iraq. Last year the school set up an electronic link with a laptop school on an Indian reservation in Alaska, and the kids swapped poems and pictures of themselves. "I've been sick for the past two days," chirps Annie, a Packer eighth-grader, "but instead of just doing nothing and waiting to get the assignments from my friends, I could...
...sixth grade, is severely dyslexic. It takes him an hour to write a paragraph by hand--but he's a demon typist. "It was as if he was playing on a level field for the first time," she says, and her relief is heartfelt. "For him, having that laptop was like being given wings...
...Francisco, Seattle and other high-tech cities. Starbucks customers have been known to hop on a free Internet node and bypass the store's paid service entirely. "Why pay if you don't have to?" says Kevin Lawrence, 28, a software-industry entrepreneur, who spent hours typing on his laptop but hadn't bothered to buy anything during a recent visit to a Starbucks in Manhattan...
...Perched nearly 500 ft. above the city, the observation deck at the Danube Tower offers panoramic vistas of historic Vienna and the Danube River. Now guests at the tower's restaurant can surf the Web while they enjoy their meal and the view--as long as they bring a laptop...
...this is similar to the adjustment people went through with cell phones and BlackBerries: a period of intense use (and overuse) followed by a mellowing out as new ground rules emerge. Gillespie, for example, says she leaves her laptop on her desk when she and her colleagues are brainstorming. And Mallick says certain tasks require the focused concentration an old-fashioned desk provides. "I don't find I can do software development in an airport," he says...