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...when we last held an election, no one was complaining that there wasn't enough to see or read on the Internet. And that was before YouTube, Politico, Huffington Post, Twitter and Facebook became daily or hourly necessities for millions. In 2004 newspaper websites were still mostly "shovelware"--the paper edition reproduced. They weren't bloated with blogs and video and interviews with the reporters who wrote the story. But now everyone has a blog. The opportunity for us all to express an opinion is wonderful. Having to read all those opinions isn't. In 2004 there were probably still...
...seek medical attention.These theoretical arguments aside, the statistics on whether higher drinking laws encourage more or less binge drinking and drunk driving are, unfortunately, inconclusive. The debate over whether raising the national drinking age in 1984 caused a decrease in drunk-driving deaths is especially contested. A recent paper by Harvard economics professor Jeffrey A. Miron found a significant flaw in traffic fatality statistics that have often been used by opponents of underage drinking to demonstrate such a link, but the answer is still ultimately ambiguous. Given the uncertainty on whether the effects of the current drinking age are positive...
Cornwell’s past gifts, such as a VSC 5000 video spectral comparator that allows conservation scientists to look at paper specimens under different lights, relate to her interest in forensics...
Pulse Smartpen by Livescribe Do you covet your kid's Leapfrog Fly computer pen? Here's the version for adults. The magic of the Pulse Smartpen and its customized Livescribe dot paper is that you can write while the pen is recording audio - and the pen will remember what was said when. Later, when you go back and tap the pen on your text (for example, "Take the A train to Brooklyn"), the pen will play whatever audio was recorded at the time, such as the cabbie's warning that the A train's running on the F line this...
...made fun of a lot at first. I didn't even know who the faces were on the paper money." - on his early days in the U.S., before he spoke English, (Fortune...