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A federal jury Thursday found a 32-year-old Minnesota woman guilty of illegally downloading music from the

 

Internet and fined her $80,000 each -- a total of $1.9 million -- for 24 songs.

 

Jammie Thomas-Rasset's case was the first such copyright infringement case to go to trial in the United

 

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Attorney Joe Sibley said that his client was shocked at the fine, noting that the price tag on the songs she

 

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She plans to appeal, he said.

 

Cara Duckworth, a spokeswoman for the Recording Industry Association of America, said the association was

 

"pleased that the jury agreed with the evidence and found the defendant liable."

 

"We appreciate the jury's service and that they take this as seriously as we do," she said.

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Thomas-Rasset downloaded work by artists such as No Doubt, Linkin Park, Gloria Estefan and Sheryl Crow.

 

This was the second trial for Thomas-Rasset. The judge ordered a retrial in 2007 after there was an error in

 

the wording of jury instructions.

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The fines jumped considerably from the first trial, which granted just $220,000 to the recording companies.

 

Thomas-Rasset is married with four children and works for an Indian tribe in Minnesota.

 

 

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HUMANS are not alone in struggling to stay slim. Some planets go through a "fat" stage that swells their

 

waistlines temporarily, which possibly explains why some gas giants are unexpectedly large.

 

"Astronomers have power leveling found a lot of planets whose

 

sizes cannot be explained by standard theory," says Laurent Ibgui of Princeton University. The difference

 

between predicted and measured widths of so-called "hot Jupiters" can be 30 per cent or more.

 

Previously, astronomers assumed that, because cold gas takes up less volume than hot gas, hot Jupiters would

 

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Now a computer simulation by Ibgui suggests this effect can be temporarily halted in hot Jupiters that begin

 

life in highly elliptical orbits. These planets are alternately squeezed and stretched as they circle their

 

stars, resulting in "tidal heating" that warms the gas inside the planet. This counteracts the cooling

 

effect, inflating the planet - an effect that can last for a billion years or more. Eventually, though, the

 

planet's orbit will become more circular, and the hot Jupiter resumes shrinking. Ibgui presented the research

 

at an American Astronomical Society meeting in Pasadena, California, last week.

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The model doesn't quite explain the superpuffy appearance of all hot Jupiters, says Jonathan Fortney of the

 

University of California, Santa Cruz. "It requires these planets to start their lives on very eccentric

 

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Like most things, the Internet has its good and its dark side. And, considering the pervasiveness of the

 

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After all, everything we do affects our brain. Though up until the 1980’s, it was universally believed that

 

the steam engine was the foremost invention of the Industrial Revolution, technology and science historian,

 

Lewis Mumford, had long before proposed that that clock was in fact the key machine of the modern Industrial

 

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according to seconds and minutes, in the age of the internet, we are rewiring our “plastic” brain to

 

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faster than we ever have before, our brains are becoming highly adapted to taking on scores of tasks at once.

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A 2008 study conducted by the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA found that middle-

 

aged and older adults who spent time browsing the web not only boosted their brain power but also could help

 

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neurologically normal volunteers between the ages of 55 and 76. Half had experience web surfing, the other

 

half did not. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans the scientists recorded the brain-

 

circuitry changes (the blood flow through the brain) and compared them as the patients performed web searches

 

and as they read book passages.

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click on, engages important cognitive circuits in the brain. This finding also demonstrated that our brains

 

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as we grow older.

So spending time on the Internet can be beneficial as you get older, but what about when you’re young?

 

According to researchers from Michigan State University, home Internet access can be a good educational tool,

 

especially for hard-to-reach populations. Also, it has had positive effects on the academic performance of

 

low-income, mostly African American children and teenagers.