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THE rise of gadgets like the iPhone, Blackberry and Xbox threatens to unravel the decades of innovation that helped to build the internet, a leading academic has warned in a new book.
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U.S. border authorities no longer apprehend illegal immigrants only as they enter the country. Now they’re catching them on the way out.
At random times near the Tijuana-San Diego border, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers have been...
Pushed to the fringes by a money-driven social divide, Rosa is what Cubans call a “marginal” person.
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here is a primal link between man and fire. Every man should know how to start one. A manly man knows how to start one without matches. It’s an essential survival skill. You never know when you’ll find yourself in a situation where you’ll need a...
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Following this morning’s announcement that new movies from all the major studios will be made available for purchase on the iTunes Store on the same day as their DVD release, Apple has quietly updated the Apple TV’s movie browsing and renting system...
If the USA seems too crowded and its roads too congested now, imagine future generations: The nation’s population could more than triple to 1 billion as early as 2100.
Sometimes you may just want a few bites of an apple, but you feel compelled to stuff down the whole thing since otherwise you’d just have to throw it away.
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