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Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:02:53 +0530
From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun at mssrf.res.in>

Friends:

Students entering college in some US universities get free iPods!

Arun


> from the April 19, 2005 edition -
> http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0419/p11s01-legn.html
>
> When iPod goes collegiate
> By Elizabeth Armstrong Moore | Correspondent of The Christian Science
> Monitor
>
> When Kenneth Rogerson walked into his newspaper journalism class on the
> first day of the school year, the professor could barely contain his
> excitement.
>
> After a quick introduction he broke the big news: "We got the grant," he
> told his class. "You all get iPods."
>
> As if on cue, the students exhaled an audible "whoa" and exchanged
> elated glances. Duke University in Durham, N.C., had already made many a
> headline as the first school ever to provide all incoming freshmen with
> their own 20-gigabyte iPods - enough space to store up to 5,000 songs.
>
> Now, thanks to a grant program set up within Duke, some upperclassmen
> were overjoyed to also become recipients of the slim white gadgets.
>
> (...)