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Cash-strapped councils around the country must have thought Christmas had come, when a Government report was published earlier this week. This story broke with headlines such as:
?The number of adults visiting libraries in England has fallen steadily over the last five years??

The same article later went on to say:
?The number of weekly library goers in England has gone down by 32% in 5 years. More than 60% of us have not stepped foot inside a library in the last

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Question is – which one? Are you one of the right-handed majority – or a leftie, like me? There’s only about 10% of us, and it is a statistic that has held fairly steady despite predictions when children were no longer forced to write with their right hand, that the figure would rise to be approximately 50% of the population. Why is there a rump of us who don’t fit the norm, when it comes to handedness – or lateralisation - to use the proper term? It’s a

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You?ve got this great story with a really neat ending. You?ve nailed the character ? there was this teacher at your school who, with a bit of tweaking, will fit snugly into the part. Fizzling with creative excitement, you spend the next week slaving over the computer. But on returning to your masterpiece for the first editing session, you are disappointed. It, somehow, seems rather flat. Which is odd ? because the character is just as you envisaged and that cool plot twist has worked well,

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We all know that mobile music and phone equipment is getting ever dinkier ? however there is a stumbling block. The fact that we need to interface with these gismos using our fingers to tap/switch commands and messages means that they have stalled at a certain size and cannot get any smaller.

However, US researchers are in the process of overcoming this hurdle ? by using our own bodies. When linked with a projector strapped to the arm, our skin can become the screen on which

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The poor souls living in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, had a very nasty shock a few weeks ago when they turned on their TV. The local station, Imedi, were broadcasting news that Russian tanks had invaded the capital and that the President, Mikheil Saakvili, had been assassinated. Unsurprisingly, this news caused panic ? especially when considering that only eighteen months ago, Russia had penetrated Georgian defences and got within 30 miles of Tbilisi. The mobile phone networks were overwhelmed

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