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using Facebook were more "narcissistic" because services such as Facebook allow users to "share themselves constantly on their terms."

Rosen also found that middle school, high school, and college students studying for exams over 15 minutes were only able to focus for two to three minutes before moving on to other things like texting or apps.

help kids to practice life behind a safety curtain

hare tidbits about themselves, practice being empathetic and interact with their friends without having to deal with other people’s reactions right away."

Either 458 version is claimed to reach 60 mph from a standing start in a reality-altering 3.4 seconds with a top speed of 202 mph.

No word as yet on availability or pricing, but we’d expect the cost of entry to be around $250,000.

Woods said it couldn't be a great year without winning a major

only his third time

injuries to his left knee

"I was happy to see Stevie and Adam win," Woods said

But now that I'm healthy, it's so much easier to be patient because I feel good

s much less memory

attach some significance to the new release

It's just "the latest."

Mozilla wants to take this a step further

The argument is made that you don't know what version of, say, Twitter or Facebook you're using, so why should your Web browser be any different?

If you're going to force the user to know about every update, it seems a little unfair to refuse to even tell her what version she's using.

he regards the entire discussion as crazy.

Mozilla is carefully circumventing the phrase of “waging war” against the creation of closed or “siloed” environments on the web.

competing, but not so by going directly against a rival, but by being “different”

That name would be Apple, which Mozilla’s chairman and chief lizard wrangler Mitchell Baker directly addressed in a series of sequential blog posts that outline Mozilla’s future direction. The attacks aren’t as crude and as we typically see between Mozilla and Microsoft. They are much more carefully worded, perhaps in an effort to remain polite and not to raise any unnecessary attention

“There’s no reason why “apps” can’t incorporate the characteristics that are important about the web. They don’t today because Apple didn’t build them that way. There’s no reason Apple should; Apple has a different view of the world. But we can. In fact, Mozilla is one of the very few organizations that can do this.”

Mozilla has yet to show what it plans to do and leaves us with its vision for now. Mozilla believes that its opportunity is a user’s desire to run anything he wants on any device he owns. Mozilla believes that a user wants to be in charge of his web experience, not Apple, Google or a device. Mozilla believes that a user would want to be in control of her/his identity and the information that is made available. Of course, Mozilla’s model is also based on Firefox and a web browser, which Apple could care less about at this time.

ice cream

red meat

butter.

lowering

artery-clogging cholesterol, what you eat may be more important than what you don't eat.

such as soy protein and nuts

reduce bad cholesterol far more effectively than a diet low in saturated fat.

That could drive down a person's risk of fatal heart attack or stroke by 10%, the authors suggested.

dump their drugs for tofu,

"Patients don't want to take the medications, and I'm afraid that if you tell them there's a diet that works just as well, then they'll do that instead," he said.

1 in 6 Americans has a high overall cholesterol level,

makes a person nearly twice as likely to suffer a heart attack or stroke as someone whose total cholesterol falls into a healthy range.

(LDL) cholesterol is one component of this overall number.

nation's most commonly prescribed medications,

355 million prescriptions dispensed,

soy protein, nuts,

"sticky" fiber such as that found in oats and barley,

plant sterols.

handful of nuts such as almonds or walnuts every day, and to substitute milk and meats with soy and tofu products as much as possible.

National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University.

This year’s report found something new and alarming: Teens who regularly use Facebook and Myspace are much more likely than social network avoiders to drink, smoke and use marijuana.

Maybe a kid has a parent who drinks heavily or uses drugs, or lives in a neighborhood where such things are commonplace.

a 1.5GHz dual-core processor, 4.3-inch qHD (960×540) touchscreen, a dedicated camera button, a dedicated video button, an 8MP rear camera, a 2MP front camera, 1GB of RAM, and Bluetooth 3.0.

HTC Ruby

handset rumor roundup,

be more powerful than the Hercules (S II),

1.2GHz dual-core processor and a 4.3-inch 480×800 screen. Both phones will be “4G” capable, meaning they will run on T-Mobile’s high-speed HSPA+ network.This is all speculation, of course, as is most early handset news. Handset manufacturers don’t

like to announce release dates or device information before the day of launch, likely because of how fast the industry moves an

d how much control is in the hands of the wireless carriers, which have a good amount of power over handset sales here in the United States.

Samsung is holding a Galaxy S II event on August 29.

upcoming Apple smartphone

, T-Mobile’s Samsung Hercules

The leak said October 26th. 

Samsung Galaxy S II

iPhone 5 will arrive in October

better under the hood specification

Apple delayed the launch of the iPhone 5 to take advantage of the so-called Thanksgiving and Christmas shopping rush.

more powerful back and front cameras.

next-generation Apple smartphone.

based in Asia.

supply of the units from Apple’s manufacturing partners

also added that Apple is still internally “debating” on either the September 29th or the 30th preorder date, but the latter seems more likely.

much-anticipated smartphones this year.

iPhone 5

expected by the end of September

iPhone 5

new A5 chip, the dual-core dedicated processor of the computer company, as well as bigger RAM, 8-megapixel rear camera, a non-VGA front-facing camera and could sport a new design. The new iPhone 5 is also the expected device to launch with iOS 5 out of the box.

iPhone 5′s design is “curvier”

f Samsung Mobile

Android OEM

launch a “defensive” strategy against the iPhone 5 by launching the company’s most popular Android smartphone to date

Samsung Galaxy S II.

Galaxy S II was heralded this week, claiming that the Samsung Hercules, or the Samsung Galaxy S II variant for the US carrier T-Mobile.

AT&T, Sprint Nextel and Verizon Wireless

also expected to sell the Samsung Galaxy S II,

Other Android devices that are also expected to arrive by Thanksgiving are the HTC Vigor, Motorola Droid Bionic and the new Nexus smartphone from Google.

Android “team” compete against the iPhone 5? I

Android smartphone that could possibly steal some of the iPhone 5 customers?

the Vostro V130.

ets customers replace batteries themselves and also offers lengthier battery life.

V131 could manage almost 10 hours on a single charge.

Other features include an HD webcam with dual-array microphones, SRS Premium Voice Pro audio software, a fingerprint reader and a fall sensor for the hard drive. Although US customers can only choose configurations with hard drives, SSD options are available in some countries, including the UK.

on sale at a starting price of £359 excluding VAT and shipping

price can go much higher depending on the configuration

grabbing today’s exchange rate, and converting the foreign price

Our size and popul

we’re still in the top quarter for price

more than triple the cost”

Facebook is a dicey issue

lost the ability to judge what is private and public information

embarrassment or much worse.

district leve

separate personal online

professional online

stem?

Amy Winehouse did not have drugs in her system, according to a statement by the "Back to Black" singer's family.

there was alcohol present in her body at the time of death,

untimely death on July 23. Some had theorized that the "Rehab" singer, who had struggle

drug problems, may have succumbed to

an overdose.

seeking treatment for alcohol issues and her family had earlier said that she may have gone "cold turkey"

raising the risk of stroke and heart attack.

And though alcohol was detected in Wine

house's system, it's not clear whether it played any role in her death

too much, or too little.

emphysema -- a

rare disease in the twenty-something set;

a mystery.

last few versions of Firefox haven’t been that good

I’ve found one Web site, my bank as it happens, that works fine with Firefox, but it doesn’t recognize Firefox 6 as being a valid Web browser.

This version of Firefox also does much better than previous versions at managing memory

I know that Firefox 7 will have better memory management. I also know that Firefox 7 is due out on September 27th

Firefox 6, the newest version, is better than Firefox 5, but it’s not that great either.

Just because Mozilla developers are paid to keep up with constant change doesn’t mean that individual developers or small independent software vendors (ISV)s can keep up.

I ran not only Firefox, but Chrome 13 and Internet Explorer (IE) 9 to see how Firefox 6 compared to its chief rivals

Firefox, once more, didn’t do well on Web standards.

Firefox really fell behind with 4,588 points. On this benchmark, IE surged ahead with a score of 8,343 to Chrome 13’s 8,010.

The other browsers are better

I wish I coud still recommend Firefox, but I can’t.

Suryatapa

at the age of six

Three months ago, I wandered into a salon in Kolkata with my mother and came

face-to-

face with a prejudice

my beloved aunts, and maddening when strangers suggest my dark skin is something to be “fixed.”

No one in India seems to think it unusual to try to slap some bleach, or a herbal equivalent, on my skin to reveal a whiter me.

Darkie, Blackie and Kaalia

My color defined me and it stuck.

self-conscious.

Kaalia, remember me? When I pointed out that it was insulting, I was called out for being “too sensitive.”

“We called you that with love,”

Well-meaning aunts and their neighbors worried about my marriage prospects.

Like that should justify the hurt.

Perhaps, they suggested, a little less sun exposure, or maybe a few extra layers of sandalwood paste or a homemade concoction that the neighborhood swore by?

I wouldn’t let anyone touch my face.

The aunts sighed but never really gave up.

Instead, in this country, it is everyone’s business to correct it or cover it up.

The personal is open to public opinion, whether it makes you squirm or not.

Few Indians seem to be comfortable in their dark skin.

So it is no surprise that a multi-billion rupee market in fairness products thrives in India.

whitened versions of themselves, urging you to pick up a tube or two of the latest product.

From lotions and soaps to whitening underarm deodorant; every body part it seems is could be a few shades lighter.

Urban legends abound of how turmeric and milk, with their blood cleansing properties, had turned someone’s friend’s sister into a fair maiden – so I gulped down this vile concoction, gagged and never touched it ever again.

adolescent weakness,

I too was convinced to go on a regimen of drinking milk with crushed turmeric.

As an adult I’ve become much more comfortable with the color of my skin.

Over a decade of living in North America – where tans are pursued and Halle Berry is a beauty icon – helped that.

So when I moved back to India, I was surprised and offended all over again, as I confronted people who still think porcelain skin is the epitome of beauty.

society that embraced a wider spectrum of skin tone.

Victorian ideas of beauty,

“Do you do tanning?” I was dumbstruck and could barely stammer out a surprised “no.”

In retrospect, her assumption says a lot about how Indians equate skin tone with beauty, confidence and social standing.

Suryatapa Bhattacharya is the India correspondent for “The National” newspaper.