Immigration scholars say the increase is probably explained by the spread of Internet connectivity and increased awareness of the lottery, which costs nothing to enter.

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IETF's founders, to launch last year an Internet societal task force as a forum for deliberating social and economic issues thrown up by the spread of the Internet.

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Even the comparison between the cheerfully practical pirates and the creative chaos unleashed by the spread of the internet holds water.

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Today, remittances sent by immigrant workers and the spread of the Internet and cell phones should render state-to-state management obsolete.

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When I shared my photos, plus images and videos that young residents of the city had given to me to spread through the internet, I was contacted by journalists and people from all over the world.

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Driven by the counter-intuitive economics of the Internet and computing technology, the spread of Internet Everywhere is deconstructing the supply chains in a wide range of once-mature industries, including broadcasting, telecommunications, mass media, computing and consumer electronics, to name just a few.

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The fury spread to Tunisia's coastal cities, growing as gory imagery relayed by cell phones and the internet clashed with the sanitised blandness of state television.

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