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...Postal Service. Netflix would love to dispense with those costs and send its product directly to customers by streaming it to their TVs. At the moment about 12,000 of the more than 100,000 titles are available for streaming, but that requires a Blu-ray player or a special Netflix device that sells for about $100. The company doesn't expect to be fully streaming for another five years. That's a long time to keep schlepping videos to the post office and hoping new ones arrive on time. Dear Netflix: Could the future arrive a little earlier, please...
English Country House This five-bedroom in Derbyshire includes use of the family car Will swap for: A house in Europe, the U.S. or the Caribbean Where it's listed: HomeForExchange.com, which offers members (who pay $88 for two years) special cancellation insurance...
People born after 1980 tend to have a distinctive style of handwriting: a little bit sloppy, a little bit childish and almost never in cursive. The knee-jerk explanation is that computers are responsible for our increasingly illegible scrawl, but Steve Graham, a special-education and literacy professor at Vanderbilt University, says that's not the case. The simple fact is that kids haven't learned to write neatly because no one has forced them to. "Writing is just not part of the national agenda anymore," he says. (See pictures of the college dorm's evolution...
...such bad handwriting that he is allowed to use a computer on standardized tests. The U.S. Department of Education estimates that only 0.3% of high school students receive this particular accommodation. McCarter's mother tried everything to help him improve his penmanship, including therapy, but the teenager likes his special status. "I kind of want to stay bad at it," he says. These days, that shouldn't be a problem...
...every business can be special," says J.D. Foster, senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank in Washington. "When you start identifying federal programs to prop up every conceivable industry that's complaining of economic hard times, you end up with a situation in which everybody is supporting everybody- which means nobody is being supported...