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Thursday, January 20, 2005



Google: Search the contents of the book

Art of Living & Literature Across Frontiers: Measuring Literacy in a World Gone Digital Dragon

There was a time when researching a high school or college term paper was a far simpler thing. A student writing about, say, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, might have checked out a book on the history of aviation from the local library or tucked into the family's dog-eared Britannica. An ambitious college freshman might have augmented the research by looking up some old newspaper clips on microfilm or picking up a monograph in the stacks.


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