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Game Changers |
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| Henrik M. Schatzinger 외 |
ǻ | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
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The Age of Watching |
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Back in the early 1990s, a company called Tele-TV tried to launch a new service: television programs delivered over telephone lines. The first problem was that their technology wasn’t ready for prime time. It was still pretty much dream-ware in 1993. |
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New Weapons Are Pois |
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For people of any age, the word “cancer” has carried dire connotations for generations. Until recently, that ominous sense of cancer as a killer was literally true, at least for many forms of the disease. And just 10 years ago, there were few treatments apart from the crude and devastating ones, such as chemotherapy and radiation. |
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The Young and Hip Ar |
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There has been a great deal of talk about the housing boom lately and whether or not the bubble will burst. (Recent figures indicate that it won’t.) But what’s not being talked about much is how the rising cost of housing is driving young people away from the large urban areas, such as New York, San Francisco, Boston, and Chicago. |
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This is Not Your Fat |
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For the past three years, the living room has been the center of the digital gold rush. Consumers have fueled the rush as they upgraded to large-screen TVs, audio systems that promise Dolby “surround sound,” and DVD players that deliver super-crisp images. |
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