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1. "These range from kids as young as 9 or 10 (they play console games) to people in their 30s and 40s (they play the more complicated PC games). Within this range, there is one constant--the players are almost entirely male." http://www.slate.com/id/3505

2. "Recent estimates have the percentage of women gamers at about 10 percent, topping out as high as 25 percent in online gaming. Why? Many of the games are violent, dedicated to the goal of killing as many adversaries as possible in the shortest amount of time." http://www.slate.com/id/3505

3. "Some effort has been made to design games specifically for girls and women. There is the //Cosmopolitan Virtual Makeover// (which allows you to scan your face and then make it over), //Barbie Fashion Makeover//, and //Let's Talk About Me.//" http://www.slate.com/id/3505

4. "There are games you play on video consoles such as Nintendo 64, Sega, and the PlayStation, which is in an estimated one of every 10 households in the Unites States." http://www.slate.com/id/3505

5. "In the last two years, text messages - which cell carriers generally limit to 160 characters - have become a rage among teenagers, who embrace the technology as yet another way to escape a boring class or stay in touch with friends." http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/09/technology/09message.html?_r=1&scp=9&sq=how%20does%20cellphones%20affect%20teenagers&st=Searchh

6. "Many high school and college students accustomed to sending unlimited instant messages on their computers do not adapt easily to text messaging's pay-per-message format, and end up with unexpectedly high bills when they get involved in keypad conversations that involve hundreds, even thousands, of messages a month." http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/09/technology/09message.html?_r=1&scp=9&sq=how%20does%20cellphones%20affect%20teenagers&st=Searchh

7. "The leader in this phenomenon has been Apple's iPhone, though I expect that this year a few competitors will also begin to attract loads of apps, or widgets. These are small software programs, easily downloaded and purchased, that often connect to the Internet to perform a specific function." http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123801598971341281.html

8. "Karina Gonzalez, a sophomore at Newtown High School in Queens and a regular sender of instant messages by computer, had her phone confiscated by her mother after her text messages resulted in a $150 phone bill, triple the usual amount. "I cried," she said. "I felt like I lost a piece of me. You can send a million instant messages a day, and it won't cost you anything. If you send one text message, it can cost you like a phone call." http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/09/technology/09message.html?_r=1&scp=9&sq=how%20does%20cellphones%20affect%20teenagers&st=Searchh

9. "Her friend Denise Lucero, 15, who has never owned a cellphone, surreptitiously used her father's phone for a while, she said, to text-message her friends. One month, those messages pushed his bill to $300. Then her father started to hide his phone: on top of the refrigerator, under the sofa, behind the television set, in his pillow. " http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/09/technology/09message.html?_r=1&scp=9&sq=how%20does%20cellphones%20affect%20teenagers&st=Searchh

10. Both girls said their inability to text message made them feel left out of the action. "It's about feeling part of a little group with cellphones," Denise said. "You want to learn what is going on." http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/09/technology/09message.html?_r=1&scp=9&sq=how%20does%20cellphones%20affect%20teenagers&st=Searchh

11. "Other firms are also working on OLED screens - Samsung has shown off a 40-inch TV using the technology - but Sony is the first to market." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7022639.stm

12."I don't think OLED TVs will replace LCD TVs overnight. But I do believe this is a type of technology with very high potential, something that will come after LCD TVs," said Sony executive deputy president Katsumi Ihara." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7022639.stm

13. "In 1996, General Motors launched its EV1, an electric car that was revolutionary—no gas, muffler, or oil needed." http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/film/who_killed_the_electric_car_paine

14. "Web entrepreneurs are increasingly embracing new technologies from "cloud" computing to new computer languages to try and slash costs as investors disappear because of the recession." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/27/AR2009032701555.html?sub=AR

15. "A fully operational prototype is expected to come out in 2008 or earlier, according to the company, while Transition vehicles are expected to hit the road, and the sky, by 2009 or 2010." http://news.cnet.com/Flying-car-ready-for-takeoff/2100-11389_3-6040007.html

16. "But the technology is advancing so quickly that a simple cellphone is fairly cheap". []

17. "Phones are really a lifeline for many people." []

//18. "After analysing the MRI data, the researchers found participants showed activation in the brain’s mesocorticolimbic centre, the region typically associated with reward and addction.// //Male brains, however, showed much greater activation, and the amount increased as they gained more territory. This was not the case with women." []//