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...over the last couple of years has been notebooks, and that's not changing. There's a shift from desktops to notebooks, and a shift within notebooks to come down in price as volume expands. Both of those trends are very good for us. We have entered a new class of notebook machines called netbooks, which are small machines with 10-inch screens. You don't use them for content creation, but they are great for simple things like surfing the net and e-mail. And they're taking off. They're at great price points, so you see this...
Outside the door, Dan Mayer stands alone. Ipod-engaged, the 8th grade American history teacher at Fairview Middle School is the first person in line. He's gotten here an hour early, concerned that long lines would have greeted him had he come later. Mayer's class has been following the election closely, analyzing campaign ads for their emotional and factual messages and reviewing notable past elections including the 2000 race that put Florida at the center of a political storm for 37 days. He doubts this election will be sent into overtime. "I don't think it's going...
...strolled through the University of Minnesota's student union with St. Paul mayor Chris Coleman and campaign staffers. Students sporting red "I voted" stickers approached him for photographs, but other students lounging in the main lobby peered over their laptops, wondering who dared to interrupt their in-between-class naps...
...always keeps his political thoughts to himself. That's because the 78-year-old tailor lives in Little Havana, where it's easy to get shouted down if you don't embrace the Republican preferences of the conservative Cuban exile community. But in recent years the demographics of working-class Little Havana have been changing dramatically - and non-Cuban Latinos like Basurto, who hails from Guayaquil, Ecuador, don't feel so much like the minority they were when he arrived in this country a decade ago. Basurto, in fact, has been feeling so emboldened of late that he went ahead...
...part because the Illinois Senator has promised to revoke the travel rules. "I've been thinking about that a lot since I heard Obama's grandmother died way out in Hawaii yesterday," said Martinez, rubbing the 5 o'clock shadow on his face. "I think enough of us middle-class Cuban-Americans are feeling the same way about things to make a difference today...