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CBS News It s been said that women don t care whose face is on paper money ... as long as they can get their hands on it. But if that ever was true, it isn t any more. Our contributor Faith Salie has some thoughts on the subject:Recently, the Bank of England announced that Jane Austen, the 19th century author of sensibly romantic and hopelessly witty novels such as Pride and Prejudice and Emma, will be the next face of the 10-pound bank note. A woman on a popular piece of paper currency Such sense and sensibility on the part of the English!Here in the colonies, a woman has appeared just once on a paper bill: it was Martha Washington, who got her mug on a dollar in 1886. Only three other women have ever hit the jackpot: Susan B. Anthony, Sacagawea, and Helen Keller. And all of them have been segregated to coins, which are smaller in stature, and, let s face it, jangly and annoying.We Americans like to say our country is modern, me
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Fans of the One Laptop Per Child program were shocked and saddened to hear of the organization imminent demise this week. There only one problem: OLPC isn ;t actually dead. Despite what some blogs are reporting, the organization is alive and well鈥?just not as alive and well as it once was. On Tuesday, Wayan Vota made the dismal declaration on the OLPC News blog.
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stanley en mexico hat technology is a force in education, and we all need to be vigilant about when, where, and how it used. 鈥?So take a moment to mourn the loss of OLPC鈥?[moment of silence] That sounds very grave, but it is not entirely correct. We reached out to OLPC to ask about the organization apparent demise. They ;re still alive! However, it does sound like they ;ve scaled back operations significantly since first making headlines nearly a decade ago. OLPC executive vice president Giulia D ;Amico told Gizmodo that the organization just finished distributing laptops at schools in Costa Rica and will deliver the first 50,000 units of the XO-4 Touch tablet which runs Android. They ;re also selling the tablet at big box shops like Amazon, Toys ;R ;Us, and Walmart.
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