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8 October 2007

Catching Up With Technology
Kathy Wang
In the middle of the summer, one event in particular roused the nation in unprecedented ways. The press, as it routinely does over new gizmos, inflated the news until it burst in a dewy explosion. People around the world, seduced by the media, left their homes and stood in the sweltering heat for hours on end for an object like no other. This was the summer of the iPhone.
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NaNoWriMo: 50,000 Words in 30 Days
Tim Potens
NaNoWriMo – National Novel Writing Month – is a contest held every November where your only goal is to complete a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. This is about producing pure quantity and simply writing without worrying about how awful it may (it likely) is..
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