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Kindle Fire review: Worthy investment for students

Kindle Fire alongside Kindle Keyboard (K3/KK/KSO), Kindle 2 (K2), and Kindle DX Graphite (DXG).

The Fire diverges away from tradition, through its clever integration of multimedia capabilities. This does not necessarily mean that the device can go toe-to-toe with other tablets in terms of processing power or features, but it gives users a unique service.

Banned authors, activists to smuggle contraband wet books into Tucson

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Houston novelist and radio personality forms a caravan to smuggle “banned” books back into Arizona. The event is in support of the now disbanded Mexican American Studies program, whose students had their Latino literature confiscated.

Student turns used college books into savvy tech startup

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Unlike many of the young, well-connected tech entrepreneurs portrayed in the media, Galvez, founder of HoustonBookExchange.com, didn’t get funding from a venture capital firm or startup incubator. Instead, this budding tech mogul took a more traditional route.

Latina among a growing number of unorthodox young entrepreneurs

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Young entrepreneurs are the game-changers that America needs right now. (They) are a dynamic resource for national recovery and growth. One Columbiana has set out to help the community while investing in her dream.

Barbie is shelved for ‘taking over the souls of youngsters’

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  The conservative website Mashregh reported this week that the police has recently instructed toy stores in Iran to take Barbie dolls off the shelves and released an announcement that they can no longer be sold. As a result of the new instructions, some of Tehran’s large toy stores have started removing Barbie dolls and [...]

U.T. DREAMers to help residents become U.S. citizens

ULI students push for immigration reform at all levels of government.

  Discouraged by the constant anti-immigration bills being introduced around the country, student activists at the University of Texas are determined get more minorities to the polls in this election year. The University Leadership Initiative will be hosting a citizenship drive. The event will allow eligible residents to work with immigration lawyers to fill out [...]

Google and Wiki blackout: What is SOPA and why it’s important

Google is one many tech companies that are involved in the SOPA blackout.

  No it’s not Spanish for soup. The Stop Online Piracy Act proposed in the U.S. House of Representatives would allow the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as copyright holders, to seek court orders against websites accused of enabling or facilitating copyright infringement. Depending on who makes the request, the court order could include [...]

Luis Gutierrez: Martin Luther King figure, soul of the Latino community

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Frank Sharry, director of advocacy group America’s Voice, made the following controversial statement: “He’s as close as the Latino community has to a Martin Luther King figure.”

Apps Against Abuse keep college students safe

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  In an unprecedented collaboration the Department of Health and Human Services, the White House Office of Science and Technology and  the Office of the Vice President challenged technology developers to create smartphone apps that would prevent violence and abuse from occuring via the Apps Against Abuse Challenge. The challenge is aimed squarely at college [...]

Citizen introduces immigration reform

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  Roland Hernandez is your average working- class American.  He works full time, six days a week, sometimes up to 12 hours a day. As a repair man, he is comfortable speaking to people of all educational backgrounds and has traveled through several Houston neighborhoods- the rich, the poor and those in between. It was [...]

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