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Nearly one third of Americans think Internet is useless |
 ...rns over cost.
From all households that do not intend to get Internet access 44 percent are simply not interested in anything that Internet provides. The survey found that 22 percent do not have the opportunity to pay for the Internet or to purchase a computer.
Among the participants in the survey, who do not intend to subscribe to the service, 17 percent said that they do not know how to use the Internet. Fourteen perc... |
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New chocolate can save the planet |
 ... health benefits of cacao: it contains more than 300 chemicals among which are antioxidants, proteins, calcium, and many other vitamins. And now those who know what pure chocolate tastes like have an opportunity not only to enjoy a new product but to do it with the awareness they are environment-friendly.
A latest trend in chocolate industry is the production of raw chocolate that is claimed to be not less tasty but fa... |
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Fake Nature of a Rolex is Hidden in Details |
| ...omers should avoid buying a timepiece from street vendors.
Buying a pre-owned Rolex watch through Internet dealers also implies some risk. Still, if an on-line dealer provides the customers with an opportunity to visit his store and examine the timepiece given a warranty, the interested customers may try out their luck.
It is better not to buy a Rolex watch in the Far East or Turkey. There are really few, if any authen... |
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Schools include MySpace in the curriculum |
| ...d were banned, now many teachers see it a helpful tool as this attracts great interest among teenagers.
Every participant taking part in the project will have a blog with profile page, and have an opportunity to share photos, ideas and communicate with friends in online communities.
Some tutors fear that such innovations will be ineffective, while inventors of the Elgg assure that this will not only result in more... |
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Biofuel Vehicles to Put Our Health at Risk |
| ... to petrol fuels. However, it would not be possible to have all vehicles on ethanol fuel as too much land would be required for growing the plants.
At the moment some scientists also consider the opportunity of converting all vehicles to battery-electric. The necessary amount of electricity would be supplied by wind energy. The use of battery-electric cars would keep the mankind away from 10,000 annual air pollution d... |
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Additional Billion PC Users for Microsoft |
 ...veloped the program in an attempt to reach more of the overall 5 billion people who do not presently belong to PC owners. By 2015 Microsoft hopes to reach the first billion. Governments will have an opportunity to purchase directly from Microsoft PCs for students to use in their school studies and at home. Gates will announce the program at a special forum launched for government leaders.
The collection of software w... |
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Woman's kidneys become a super-prise in TV show |
 ... of the participants and learn their profile in order to make her final choice on the donor of her kidneys. The reality show will last for more than an hour and those watching the show, will have the opportunity to send messages to the woman, giving her advice on her choice.
Laurens Drillich, BNN channel chairman, says that this TV show is meant to give hope to those ill people, who need a new kidney, because if they h... |
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Robots Assist in Rescuing Disaster Victims |
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Such testing programs help robot developers find out what kind of emergency responders are required to perform their functions safely and effectively. In their turn, the emergency responders get an opportunity to work with a wide range of high-tech solutions according to their own deployment scenarios and then guide robot developers toward satisfying their utmost needs.
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Spain Workers Smashed Madrid Hotel to Relieve Stress |
 ...More than 40 stressed-out workers had an opportunity to hammer Madrid Hotel and blow off steam before it will be renovated.
Forty bankers, teachers and other workers were selected from more than 1000 volunteers who had written to the owners of NH hotels describing stressfulness of their lives before the wrecking team was assembled.
But first, 100 finalists had to perform a psychological test, where they had a chan... |
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British Invents Anti-Paedophilies Software |
 ...ent Teacher Associations and The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Center - the Government's anti-child abuse agency. They consider any protective measures against child abuse online a "golden opportunity".
Most children now surf the web without parental supervision and as many as one in seven kids is approached by web sex offender.
Mr.Hildreth now offers the program for free to the first 10,000 people regist... |
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There Are Successful Bloggers in Africa Too |
 ...An African student from Malawi has become a successful blogger just two weeks after he had seen the internet for the first time. William Kamkwamba got an opportunity to surf the net when he attended a TEDGlobal conference in Arusha, Tanzania, aimed to promote new ideas in the technology, design and entertainment fields. The 19-year-old high-school student was invited to the conference to share his personal experience of d... |
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Schizophrenia Mouse Grown to Find a Key to Mental Health |
 ... lateral ventricles was bigger than in normal state.
Researchers say that schizophrenia mouse model could be of greater help to millions of patients suffering from schizophrenia. They have the opportunity to study the impact of numerous factors that may interfere with this mental disorder.
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Blind People Help Sighted to Discover the Unseen |
 ... people through several specially constructed darkened rooms. Thus sighted people are able to "discover the unseen".
This event has been held since 1999. Each year in Tokyo sighted people have the opportunity to discover the other side of life. About 25,000 people took the opportunity to "see" the darkness.
This year, the exhibition takes place at the building of the out-of-use Akasaka Elementary School in Minato-ku... |
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Computer Simulation Unveils Unexpected Process on the Surface of the Sun |
 ...rface of the sun. The professor explained that the moving walls were acoustic pulses, gigantic walls made of noise, which move across the surface of the star. He added that yet no one has ever had an opportunity of observing those pulses.
After the computer modeling showed that granulations are much more turbulent than they were initially thought to be, the researchers began to study the effects that granulations have on... |
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