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Newser Daily Digest - More High Schools Hand Out iPads, Cut Textbooks

More High Schools Hand Out iPads, Cut Textbooks

(Newser) - More US high school students will be encouraged not to hit the books this year—because a gleaming new iPad awaits them in the classroom. More than 600 school districts will give out iPads for each student in at least one class, Apple says, and one high school in Kentucky... More »

Newser located this story for you on Sunday, September 4, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.

Cellphones Killing Our Ability to Find Ourselves

(Newser) - The Internet has ruined the the freshman year roommate experience , and the wireless world's path of destruction doesn't end there, writes Dalton Conley for Bloomberg . He reminisces about his lonely, wonderful, confusing journey through Europe as an 18-year-old—the kind of experience today's uber-connected kids can't... More »

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Matchmaking Rabbi Pairs Gay Men With Lesbians

(Newser) - It might well be the most unusual matchmaking service in the world: An Israeli rabbi specializes in setting up Orthodox Jewish gay men with Orthodox lesbians for marriage, reports the AP . The idea is that they can raise a family together while still adhering to religious laws. The spouses could... More »

Newser located this story for you on Sunday, September 4, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Arts & Living.

San Fran Cops Confirm They Helped Apple Search Home

(Newser) - This year's saga of Apple's missing iPhone prototype is getting nearly as melodramatic as last year's . San Francisco police have changed their tune and now say "three or four" detectives accompanied private detectives hired by Apple to search a local home, reports the San Francisco Weekly... More »

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A Eulogy for the Random Freshman Year Roommate

(Newser) - Random room assignments were once a rite of passage for university freshmen, pairing Democrats and Republicans, party animals and studious nerds. But they're becoming a relic of the past, eliminated by a host of social networking websites that allow today's 18-year-olds to track down like-minded potential roomies as... More »

Newser located this story for you on Sunday, September 4, 2011 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Arts & Living.