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Steve Jobs book generating massive buzz for author Walter Isaacson

Environment

When Steve Jobs was diagnosed with cancer in 2004, he approached Walter Isaacson to write his biography. Isaacson said no, not knowing about the cancer. In 2009, however, he agreed and the book that was released last week is a best-seller.

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Charges of Abuse at Apple’s iPad Factories

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100,000 Tablets for School Children in New Delhi

Global Politics

Wednesday the Indian government began distributing 100,000 computer tablets in New Delhi.

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US Reaches Out to Young People in Indonesia

Arts, Culture & Media

The State Department has created a multimillion dollar space for people under 30 in Jakarta’s upscale Pacific Place shopping mall.

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The Waste Land 2.0

Arts, Culture & Media

April may be the cruelest month, but June has been good for T.S. Eliot’s landmark poem, The Waste Land. Eighty-nine years after it was published, the poem became a runaway hit in the form of a new iPad application that’s selling like gangbusters.

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Why the iPad is like a puppy: reactions to a new gadget

Arts, Culture & Media

Apple’s new iPad garnered so much interest ahead of its launch that it’s almost impossible to display it in public and not get asked questions. Takeaway web editor Jim Colgan has been drawing strangers’ attention since he got the device last weekend.

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First in line for the iPad: inside the minds of early adopters

Arts, Culture & Media

Apple will release its widely anticipated product, the iPad, on Saturday. Crowds are expected to line up at stores hours before they open. But given the high cost and potential glitches of the new gizmo, what is the appeal of being an early adopter?

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