"Phone calls are not the way young people express themselves, " said Danah Boyd, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research and an assistant professor of media, culture and communication at New York University.

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The findings add to growing evidence that calorie restriction can benefit health and longevity, but this shouldn't prompt already skinny seniors to start dieting, said Carol Greenwood, a senior scientist and assistant director of the Kunin-Lunenfeld Applied Research Unit at Baycrest, a Toronto academic medical center focused on aging.

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Negroponte has made another Foreign Service Officer with a record of downplaying threats - Thomas Fingar, former Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research - his senior Deputy for Analysis, a critical job in the assessment of all classified information.

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