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IBM reinvents voluntary work

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This bar chart shows the figures with regard to imprisonment from 1930 to 1980 in the five countries as Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Canada.

WHEN George W. Bush referred to “rumours on the, uh, internets” during the 2004 presidential campaign, he was derided for his cluelessness—and “internets” became a shorthand for a lack of understanding of the online world. But what looked like ignorance then looks like prescience now. As divergent forces tug at the internet, it is in danger of losing its universality and splintering into separate digital domains.

The internet is as much a trade pact as an invention. A network of networks, it has grown at an astonishing rate over the past 15 years because the bigger it got, the more it made sense for other networks to connect to it. Its open standards made such interconnections cheap and easy, dissolving boundaries between existing academic, corporate and consumer networks (remember CompuServe and AOL?). Just as a free-trade agreement between countries increases the size of the market and boosts gains from trade, so the internet led to greater gains from the exchange of data and allowed innovation to flourish. But now the internet is so large and so widely used that countries, companies and network operators want to wall bits of it off, or make parts of it work in a different way, to promote their own political or commercial interests.

The chart shows the percentage of commuters using different modes of transport in London in1960,1980 and 2000.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The diagram shows the process of recycling bottles.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

Reading help Haiti children through quake trauma

When the first story began only a handful of kids sat in the wet ground,l watching and listening intently as a woman read aloud to them in the Port-au-Prince neighbor of Tabarre.

Soon a crowd  of 60 formed as curious chikdren carrying baby siblings were joined by adults, eager for diversion from the tedium that has seettled into Haiti's sprawling camps since the January earthquake.

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 (Reuters) - The amount of time children spend reading books for enjoyment decreases as they use cell phones and other mobile technology, but e-books might just bring them back to literature, according to a report released on Wednesday.

The study, which was conducted by educational and media company Scholastic and Harrison Group, a marketing and research consulting firm, also found parents are concerned that greater access to technology would limit time reading or with family.

About 40 percent of parents believed that time spent online or on mobile devices would reduce time for books or engaging in physical activities. Thirty-three percent were concerned technology would lead to less time spent with family.

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How important is the patient's mental attitude towards his/her treatment in determining the effectiveness of the treatment?

No matter what kind of medical treatment a patient chooses, it is the patient’s mental attitude that determines the effectiveness of the treatment. The attitude includes the cooperation with doctors and the faith in them, particularly keeping the optimistic attitude during the treatment period.