A Magical Ride

NewsLite © WPSA bg hd hg This poem says I’m sorry by Steven Clark in The Dog ate my bus pass, edited by Nick Toczek and Andrew Fusek Peters © Macmillan Publishers 2004. A note from Mum by Ann Bonner in The Dog ate my bus pass, edited by Nick Toczek and Andrew Fusek Peters © Macmillan Publishers 2004. A washing machine says sorry by Clare Bevan in The Dog ate my bus pass, edited by Nick Toczek and Andrew Fusek Peters © Macmillan Publishers 2004. 112 Entertainment weekly /DR

The Meaning of Liff The Deeper Meaning of Liff What’s the name of the tallest mountain in the world? Mauna Kea, the highest point on the island of Hawaii. The inactive volcano is a modest 13,799 feet above sea level, but when measured from the seabed to its summit, it is 33,465 feet high—about three-quarters of a mile taller than Mount Everest. As far as mountains are concerned, the current convention is that “highest” means measured from sea level to summit; “tallest” means measured from the

Does IT Matter? THE SHALLOWS What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains NICHOLAS CARR W. W. NORTON & COMPANY New York * London Copyright © 2010 by Nicholas Carr All rights reserved “The writing ball is a thing like me…” from Gramophone, Film, Typewriter by Friedrich A. Kittler, translated by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young and Michael Wutz. Copyright © 1996 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. University for translation; © 1986 by Brinkmann and Bose. All rights reserved. Used