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Help Save the Planet by Follow These Guidelines
You don’t have to be Al Gore or Bono to save the planet. All you have to do is follow a few simple guidelines, and you can make a difference, too! Here they are, courtesy of the researchers at Condé Nast Publications.
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Is Homework Actually Helping Kids?
Three things in life are certain: death, taxes, and homework. Homework’s important, because it makes children smarter, helps them earn better grades, and helps them get into better colleges, right? Not necessarily. According to ABC News, these days, kids are bringing home mountains of homework and starting in kindergarten, they’re expected to do an hour of homework a week. Which rises slowly to 2-and-a-half hours a day - or more - for high school seniors. Educators say that when kids get piles of homework, they begin to see learning as a chore. Not something fun or interesting. When young kids get into trouble for not turning in their work, it turns into a combative relationship. Basically, teachers, schools, and parents versus students.
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Are You a Victim of an "iCrime?"
That’s the new buzzword for thefts associated with any kind of portable music player – like an iPod. It’s more serious than you may think. According to an article in the Associated Press, iCrime may be responsible for a dramatic rise in violent crimes over the past two years! Nobody is pointing fingers at Apple for a spike in the homicide rate, but researchers at the Urban Institute in Washington D.C. found some trends that are worth keeping an eye on.
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The Generation Gap Is Being Caused By Text Messaging
The generation gap used to be caused by crazy clothes and rock ‘n roll. Now, it’s being caused by text messaging! According to The New York Times, innovation has always spurred broad changes in society. For example, in the last century, telephones gave teenagers a form of privacy and easy communication that Alexander Graham Bell never dreamed of. The automobile ushered in an era when kids could go on dates without watchful chaperones. Cell phones are accelerating those trends. Especially as they morph into mini hand-held computers, social networking devices, and pint-size movie screens. In fact, 80% of North Americans between the ages of 5 and 24 already own a cell phone.
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A Comeback of The Cassette Tape
Remember the mix tape? You’d sit by your radio, calling the station’s request line until your favorite song came on – then you’d quickly hit “record” on your boombox. You’d make a special collection of songs for your girlfriend, your friends, or “driving music” to play in the cassette player in your car. Remember those days? Well, if you were born after 1990, probably not. For the rest of us, mix tapes were the soundtrack to our 8th grade romance! Of course, the cassette tape has long since been replaced by MP3s burned from iTunes, but according to Newsweek magazine, it’s making a comeback!
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Pay-at-Your-Table Wireless Scanners: the Newest Way to Pay Your Bill
Coming soon to a restaurant near you: an easier and safer way to pay your bill! With pay-at-your-table wireless scanners. The technology has actually been around in Europe for years, but here in America, only the Legal Sea Foods chain on the East Coast, along with upscale restaurants in New York, Chicago and Las Vegas, have begun using the technology. So why is a wireless scanner the way to go? Well, according to Newsweek, there are 3 good reasons.
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Did You Know?Did you know if you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will land tails-up more often? This is because the heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom. 
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We Know Exercise is Good for Us, Why Don't We Do It More Often?
So we all know that exercise is good for us. It benefits the heart, the waistline and the mind, but according to Time magazine, more than 60% of North American adults do not exercise regularly – or exercise at all. So why is there such a disconnect between what we know and what we do?
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Disable right click on sites? no problem, let enable it..
Lots of web sites have disabled the right click function of the mouse button... it's really, really annoying. This is done so that you don't steal (via right-click->save picture) their photos or images or any other goodies. Unfortunately, it disables ALL right-click functionality: copy, paste, open in new window.
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KMPlayer : Decent Audio and Video Playing Software! If you want to use a software just for playing audio or video of popular file formats then I can suggest you to use KMPlayer. So that you don’t have use separate players for each file formats because KMPlayer can play all major formats like AVI, AC3, MKV, OGG, OGM, 3GP, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, Real Media, QuickTime, VCD, DVD, etc.
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