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The accepted wisdom is that kids under the age of seven have a better chance at fluently learning a language than adults do. That may not be the case. In fact, it may be no more than a flimsy excuse. In some respects, adults may be better at learning languages than children. As we Americans entered middle school, and attended our firs
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Google told Wired that it researching plans to use the +1 button as a crowdsourcing tool to adjust search results and battle web spam. Google recently expanded the powers of the +1 button to include their new Google+ social networking service. Click on +1 button on a site, or in search results, and you ;re Google+ +1 feed is updated with the site. It s
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