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"... the scuttlebutt around the al-Qaeda campfires was that a large anti-American attack was imminent." [The Longest War] dld.bz/N2zp

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Nicholas Carr: "The very way my brain worked seemed to be changing." [The Shallows] Internet Books dld.bz/NJXt

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Evgeny Morozov: "The Internet does not bring people together." [The Net Delusion] Books Politics Iran China dld.bz/RfZP

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Malcolm Potts, Thomas Hayden: "These stereotypes tap into human emotion and human biology." [Sex and War] Books dld.bz/StP8