Popular Youth Web Sites Expose Teens, Tweens to Images of Violent Behavior, Substance Abuse (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Director of National Drug Control Policy, John P. Walters, today released a startling data compilation indicating the extent to which Internet sites -- particularly those that post user-generated content -- can spread misinformation and facilitate dangerous behaviors among teens, tweens, and younger children.
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Students putting Bath's history online (The Times Record)
BATH — The young researchers who filed through the Patten Free Library and on through the Bath downtown Wednesday were of just the generation to take on this project: Put Bath's history on the Internet.
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Chamber project to showcase town’s history (The Little Elm Journal)
A Little Elm Chamber of Commerce history project is out to show that one popular suburban legend is all wet. Little Elm’s old downtown area is not under water due to the combining of Lake Dallas and Lewisville Lake in the mid-1950s.
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Enquiries: End of History, 42 and Year of the Golden Frog... (Payvand Iran News)
2008 has been a good year for history thanks to Zeus and Apollo and the rest of the Olympians who didn't take too kindly to the human proclamation about the 'end of history' and swiftly punished hubris. Only great gods and fat opera singers can decree 'The End'. Russians have swaggered back into Georgia; Chinese have proudly demonstrated their might with fireworks over Beijing Olympics, and ...
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Mercury Computer Systems to Deliver Software and System Integration Services to Leading Provider of Military and ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. , a leading provider of embedded, high-performance computing systems and software for complex image, sensor, and signal processing applications, was awarded a contract from a long-standing customer to enable product and technology leverage in its current and next-generation airborne surveillance products, which are focused on the ISR initiatives approved by ...
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She's 87, and soon to be a senior (The Charlotte Observer)
UNC Charlotte student Bertha Dupre had an art history paper due last week, but her home computer was suddenly misbehaving. She decided to write it out longhand. “I don't have time to waste on this computer. I've got other assignments to worry about,” Dupre said. “It'll be OK.” She's certain of that. Dupre is no typical student. She's 87, diabetic and walks “slowly but steadily” with a cane. ...
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Tameer to build largest LED screen in history (Zawya)
Dubai - October 6, 2008: In what will make realty history, TAMEER HOLDING TAMEER HOLDING , has today announced it will develop the world's largest LED screen to be embedded on an intended commercial tower in the Majan district of Dubailand.
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Elite Club Lets Space Tourist Cut to Front of Line (SPACE.com via Yahoo! News)
American billionaire Charles Simonyi snagged his history-making second space tourist trip to the International Space Station next year thanks to an elite club that gives its members first dibs on private spaceflight seats.
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History of Hubble (The Bay Area Citizen)
Since 1990, The Hubble Space Telescope has dazzled the human eye with images far beyond its natural ability, reaching distant galaxies, broadening the scientific scope and unraveling the deepest and darkest secrets of outer space.
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What the future holds: Software for amateur astrologists (Bangkok Post - Thailand's English news)
Hamburg - For centuries, astrologers studied celestial constellations in a bid to unravel the future. Thanks to modern technology, a glance at your computer screen suffices nowadays.
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