A Better Course

there is little correlation between Facebook support and real-world support. If there was, Mr. Paul would be the front-runner.

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Youth prefer in-person (unregulated) encounters. They turn to SNSs when they can’t get together with their friends en masse or when they can’t get together without surveilling adults. There are few free spaces where youth can gather with their friends en

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Some of us have spent years scraping news sites. Others have spent them downloading government data. Others have spent them grabbing catalog records for books. And each time, in each community, we reinvent the same things over and over again

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