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"From mystical blue roses to enchanted mirrors to pesky puppets, this classic fable was born from the collective creativity of more than one hundred contributors via the social network Twitter.com in a groundbreaking literary experiment."
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"unclasses.org is a simple site that connects people who want to learn about a topic with those in their area who want to teach it. It’s basically a marketplace for matching interest with passion. The actual (un)classes can be whatever you want them to be. People in your area suggest things they want to learn, others join, and someone volunteers to teach. It’s that simple."
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Boarding is fully optimized for a mobile usage. You just have to tweet #boarding along with the airport code to get in touch with the service You'll get a reply with the list of the other users in the same airport in the last hours.
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Помогает найти людей в том же аэропорте, что и вы - нужно добавить #boarding код_аэропорта
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"Paying a woman for her eggs to use in stem cell research has been a bioethical no-no for years. But this past June, New York State decided to allow just that, becoming the first state to permit public money to be used in this way. The decision, which allows payment of up to $10,000, will likely jump-start donations—and thereby research."
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"Who takes Apple’s rumored touchscreen tablet seriously? Wired’s parent company Condé Nast. Earlier this week, the corporation revealed its plans to work with Adobe to repurpose magazine content for upcoming digital devices, including the Apple tablet (if it is indeed real). The first mag to get the tablet treatment, of course, is Wired."
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"Global TGI Top Line View TOTALLY FREE OF CHARGE a valuable selection of TGI data showing percentage penetration and total users (in 000's) of each product category in each country. Global TGI Top Line currently covers 52 categories across 63 countries."
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PC at Home. Percentage of total population. Azerbaijan-21%, China-54%, Israel-81%, India-11%, Russia-43%, South Korea-91%, Ukraine-21%, USA-79%.
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Just compare PC statistics with Internet Use. Percentage of total population. Russia-26%, USA-79%.
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In the sleepy Istanbul district of Eskiköy stands the former whirling dervish house of Adem Dede. Over the space of five days of an Istanbul heatwave, six lives weave a story of corporate wheeling and dealing, Islamic mysticism, political and economic intrigue, ancient Ottoman mysteries, a terrifying new terrorist threat, and a nanotechnology with the potential to transform every human on the planet.
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