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The Great Wall of America? Officials ‘considered building fence on northern Canada border to keep out criminals’

The U.S. has considered building a fence along its northern border with Canada to keep out terrorists and other criminals, it has emerged.

A Customs and Border Protection Agency report suggested ‘fencing and other barriers’ along the ‘longest non-militarised open border in the world’. But the U.S. agency has since said it is more concerned about considering the environmental effects of building more infrastructure along the border.


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Ten Ways To Tell a Restaurant Will Suck Before You Take a Bite

Foodar — the sixth sense for good restaurants — is hard to explain, but if you have it, you know what it feels like.

Some tiny nondescript place in a strip mall inexplicably calls out to you, and it turns out to have amazing food. Or a place is crowded with happy-looking people, yet you just know it’s going to suck.

But how do you know?


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Remembering Steve Jobs – 1955-2011

Apple has set up a special email address for people to share their “thoughts, memories, and condolences.” If you’d like to send them to Apple, it’s rememberingsteve@apple.com

‘You’ve got to find what you love,’ Jobs says

Drawing from some of the most pivotal points in his life, Steve Jobs, chief executive officer and co-founder of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, urged graduates to pursue their dreams and see the opportunities in life’s setbacks — including death itself — at the university’s 114th Commencement on June 12, 2005.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.


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Apple’s Steve Jobs Is Dead

Steven P. Jobs, the Apple Inc. chairman and co-founder who pioneered the personal computer industry and changed the way people think about technology, died Wednesday at the age of 56.

His family, in a statement released by Apple, said Mr. Jobs “died peacefully today surrounded by his family…We know many of you will mourn with us, and we ask that you respect our privacy during our time of grief.”

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