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In recent years, police in Merseyside and London, England, have found that young people wearing the distinctive white headphones of iPod music listening devices are increasingly the target of muggings and robberies.
Muggings in some areas increased almost 40 percent. Small devices like the iPod and mobile phones are easily identified and removed by robbers (Will Iredale, "Street Robbery Soars as iPod Users Targeted," The Sunday Times, Oct. 9, 2005).
As a result of the continuing popularity of iPods, the small size, high monetary value and the distraction presented by listening to music while on the street, users need to be cautious. Stay alert and keep iPods and mobile phones out of sight (including headphones) while on the street in potentially unsafe areas.
Percentage of people over age 12 who listen to the radio
at least 15 minutes a week (Arbitron).
The Columbus Dispatch, April 13 2008
of 1,175 parents interviewed by AT&T learned how to send text messages from their children. The New York Times, March 9, 2008
Concerning the latest Internet advance, "the grid," "Britain alone has 8,000 servers on the grid system—so that any student or academic will theoretically be able to hook up to the grid rather than the internet this autumn [2008]" (Jonathan Leake, The Sunday Times, April 6, 2008).
Giving gifts to other people or to charities makes the givers happier than those who don't give, according to a recent study from the University of British Columbia and Harvard University. Researchers concluded that spending money on oneself doesn't have the same happiness-causing effect as spending on others (Randolph Schmid, "Science, Bible Agree: Giving Is Better," The Christian Post, March 21, 2008).
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