Just as getting our children to eat vegetables is only appreciated once we become grandparents, showing society that the threads holding it together are weakening is a thankless, but necessary, task of the media.

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Web Workers, for instance, is an emerging system for isolating a browser's individual tasks into separate "threads, " making it easier for a browser-based program to perform a computationally intensive task such as photo-editing in a background tab while the user is attending to something else, like e-mail, in the foreground.

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