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In 2015, as Americans worried about terrorist attacks at home and abroad, a disturbing new study showed that while 71 Americans were killed in terrorist attacks on U.S. soil over [...]

While serving as a brigade surgeon in the Canadian field artillery, John McCrae treated those wounded during the Second Battle of Ypres in spring 1915. After 17 days, and following [...]

In 2005, Internet users numbered more than one billion, almost 200 million of whom are from the United States. The Pew Internet & American Life Project reported that by the [...]

On April 18, 2013, PR Newswire announced that a survey commissioned by the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) found that 'more than 90 percent of Americans polled said that free content [...]

The web continues to expand exponentially--from 650,000 to one billion pages in three years--and no search engine even captures 20 percent of what's there. Thus it remains vital to identify [...]

We are living in time when the growth rate of information and the ease with which technological tools allow us to share it are unparalleled. Some describe this as the [...]

A February 2010 PEW Internet report revealed a significant increase in the use of social networks and wireless and mobile devices among teens and young adults. Information providers are going [...]

'In better times the mall was the gathering spot. Now it's the library.' This quote from the Raleigh News and Observer (1/24/09) is not unique in this respect. Many recent [...]

The Center for Media Research, citing the Internet Activity Index, reported in May 2007 that the time Internet users spent consuming content increased 37 percent and time spent searching increased [...]

This year marks the tenth anniversary of our best web sites list. In 1997, the number of web pages was estimated to be 650,000 and fewer than 20 million U.S. […]

Clicking on the web...The public has long relied upon libraries to provide consumer information. Although Consumer Reports and Consumers' Research Magazine--the longstanding pillars of a consumer collection--are not available on [...]