The novel, "Gift, " which features a high school student with paranormal abilities and a musician classmate, includes original songs that play automatically when you turn the page, an original graphic novel, diary excerpts and a new music video by Swedish YouTube sensation Fredde Gredde.

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As Microsoft slowly leaves the legacy world behind in order to keep up with its rivals, a tension will be introduced into the market along a fault line I highlighted in a previous column: the x86-ARM divide, which falls at the bottom of the stack shown in the graphic at the top of the page.

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On its back page, the state-owned Daily Graphic said the Beninois owe their historic feat to the Ghanaian's astute management.

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That means every button, graphic, link, and line of text on a web page on the iPad Mini appears tiny even when we try to do the right thing and build flexible, multi-device experiences.

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Web pages are so ugly because, having abandoned centuries of experience in graphic design, web designers have decided that what matters is to cram as much info as possible into the first page.

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