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While the female Fryhofer and volleyball appear to be a perfect fit, her decision to play was hardly instinctual. The sophomore was also renowned on her high school’s basketball court where she was a four-time letter winner. Fryhofer was captain of the basketball team her junior and senior years, and, as a freshman, helped lead her team to the Georgia State Final Four Tournament...
...coincidentally, Powazek had been working with Hewlett-Packard on the development of MagCloud, a publish-on-demand service that lets anyone become his or her own print magnate. Potential publishers e-mail the site any number of documents to be printed on standard, letter-size magazine stock. MagCloud takes care of the rest - binding the pages, selling the finished magazine on its website and delivering each order. For this HP charges about 20 cents per page; the publisher of the magazine can add a markup to that. (See pictures of Australia's dust storms...
...reach that conclusion, Malmgren's team analyzed the letter-writing oeuvre of 16 people important enough that their correspondence has been thoroughly archived - people like Einstein, Darwin and Hemingway. Initially, Malmgren says, researchers believed that old-fashioned letter-writing would follow different rules of behavior from e-mailing, but the new analysis suggests that they're actually very similar. "It's analogous to some areas of physics," says Malmgren, "where you might have two fluids with very different densities and viscosities but they ultimately follow the same laws of fluid dynamics." (See 20 things you need to know about Einstein...
...turns out that just three mechanisms combine to explain both activities. The first is our propensity to continue repeating a task once we've started: "Once you send one e-mail or write one letter, you tend to do another," says Malmgren. The second is our circadian sleep-wake cycle, which limits the available time we have to devote to letter-writing. The third is that we typically work on the same days each week, further restricting when and how long we spend getting in touch with friends. (See TIME's brain covers...
Nevertheless, both celebrities' letters fit into the same underlying model, as did those of Karl Marx, Robert E. Lee, Marcel Proust - and presumably a horde of unfamous letter-writers as well. "I really wish we could have gotten some ordinary people," says Dean. "But unfortunately, their letters are rarely preserved in a comprehensive way. Nobody cares about the letters of Joe Schmo who lived in 1873." (See the 100 best novels of all time...