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Business Brisk at Area Libraries - washingtonpost.com on 2009-02-02
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Cultural soothsayers once thought libraries would become obsolete in the Internet age. Not so. They have modernized, digitized, virtualized.
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More than 68 percent of American adults now have a library card, the highest number since the ALA began tracking the numbers in 1990.
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Link By Link - In a Google Library, Millions of Books, but No Card Catalog - NYTimes.com on 2009-02-02
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As long as Google has a set of millions of books that it uniquely can offer to the public, he argues, it has a monopoly it can exploit. You want that 1953 treatise on German state planning? You’ll have to pay. Or, more seriously, your library wants unfettered access to these millions of books? You’ll have to subscribe.
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To professors who track the fast-changing nature of content on the Internet, not to mention Google officials, the idea of Google as a robber baron is fanciful. Google has no interest in controlling content, Mr. Clancy said, and in the few cases where it does create its own content — maps or financial information, for instance — it tries to make it available free.
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Austenbook on 2009-02-02
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Mrs. Bennet KNEW that single men with good fortunes would want wives.
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In Bolivia, Untapped Bounty Meets Nationalism - NYTimes.com on 2009-02-02
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In the rush to build the next generation of hybrid or electric cars, a sobering fact confronts both automakers and governments seeking to lower their reliance on foreign oil: almost half of the world’s lithium, the mineral needed to power the vehicles, is found here in Bolivia — a country that may not be willing to surrender it so easily.
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Google Earth Goes Deep With Ocean Simulations - NYTimes.com on 2009-02-02
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On Monday, the oceans will be the most significant of several upgrades to Google Earth, with the new version downloadable free at earth.google.com, according to the company.
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Another feature, Historical Imagery, provides the ability to scroll back through decades of satellite images and watch the spread of suburbia or erosion of coasts.
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Media Matters - The media myth about the cost of Obama's inauguration on 2009-01-19
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For
years,
the
press
routinely
referred
to
the
cost
of
presidential
inaugurations
by
calculating
how
much
money
was
spent
on
the
swearing-in
and
the
social
activities
surrounding
that.
The
cost
of
the
inauguration's
security
was
virtually
never
factored
into
the
final
tab,
as
reported
by
the
press.
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Colder in Alabama than Alaska : State and Regional News : Knoxville News Sentinel on 2009-01-17
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"No matter how bad it is, it could be worse — we could be in Anchorage, Alaska," Johnson said. Actually, the temperature was about 20 degrees warmer in Anchorage on Friday.
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Digital Domain - What Carriers Aren’t Eager to Tell You About Texting - NYTimes.com on 2009-01-05
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Senator Herb Kohl, Democrat of Wisconsin and the chairman of the Senate antitrust subcommittee
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was curious about the doubling of prices for text messages charged by the major American carriers from 2005 to 2008, during a time when the industry consolidated from six major companies to four.
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- Detroit lawyer gets 5-cent IRS bill, 4-cent refund | ajc.com on 2009-01-05
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As an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God | Matthew Parris - Times Online on 2009-01-05
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It's a pity, I would say, that salvation is part of the package, but Christians black and white, working in Africa, do heal the sick, do teach people to read and write; and only the severest kind of secularist could see a mission hospital or school and say the world would be better without it.
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