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...nine hours online at home each week, according to the AXA survey. That's up from seven hours two years ago and is an hour more than adult nonretirees who, granted, are not at home as much. But this is a far bigger chunk of time than is spent online by the same cohort in countries like Japan (three hours a week) and Spain (two hours). "Search is the sleeper," says Tobey Dichter, CEO of Generations on Line, a nonprofit promoting Internet literacy among older Americans. "The idea of being able to discover your own world is very exciting...
...next things we're after is textbooks, because if you can take the money spent on textbooks and put that into buying tablet devices for all the kids, they have less to carry around. It can be more easily customized, more interactive...
...serve as unique identifiers. “We need that database of ISBN numbers to keep the Web site running,” Crimson Reading co-founder Tom D. Hadfield ’08 said. And in fact it was Hadfield himself who, together with a few friends, spent much of August in the Coop bookstore, using notepads to record ISBN information for nearly 2,500 textbooks to get the site up and running in September. With the spring semester set to begin, he said, he thought it wise to enlist the help of the UC. According to UC President...
...CLINTON: Well, I spent a lot of time with my family over Christmas, and Bill and I went away for a few days over New Year's, and that gave me the space-the psychic space-to really think it through because I hadn't focused on it with the level of seriousness it needed until after my election [to the Senate]. I mean, I knew I was going to think about it, but then it came to actually have to think about it, and we were still working in the Senate. I was receiving a lot of advice from...
...Indeed, the early signs do not bode well. Lula has formed a provisional coalition but its future is hardly bright. Three months after winning the election, the PT is still negotiating who gets what lucrative posts in the cabinet and the PT and the Communist Party of Brazil have spent the last two months in a very public battle over who should get the key position of president of the lower house. Lawmakers have no incentive to change their ways. The job is just too comfortable. They might lack, as the head of the Chamber's Ethics Council said last...