Washington, Apr 12 : A newspaper study has revealed that teenagers think that news is a free commodity and they love aggregation sites.

The findings may acts as a bad news for online newspapers as two of the big industry ideas right now are-charge for content, and put the aggregators out of business.

"Not only are teens not rushing to pay for content, but they also struggle to envision in what realm they would need to pay for content," Wired News quoted the study as stating.

Washington, Apr 12 : "Eloquent," "love" and "symphony"-these are just some of the words that grab students'' eyeballs and ears as they find them pretty, but words like "vomit," "moist" and "puke" are a big turn off because pupils think they are ugly, revealed a new survey.

Robert E. Wolverton Sr., a Mississippi State University classics professor, surveyed some 75 students in his classes and asked them to name the most pretty and ugly in the English language.

The poll is part of Wolverton''s "semi-frequent" examination of how students at the university view widely used terms.

Washington, Apr 12 : For those wondering how to improve their employees' productivity, `Meetings on Move' concept might do the needful.

Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis have revealed that implementing the `Meetings on Move' concept would significantly increase productivity and improve employees'' health by getting them up from their desks and on the move.

"Forty percent of the population are absolute couch potatoes," said Dr Debra Haire-Joshu, and professor of social work at Washington University.

Washington, April 12 : An Indian-origin researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has come up with a new way for etching extremely narrow lines on a microchip by exposing it to certain wavelengths of light.

Research engineer Rajesh Menon and his colleagues call the new technique absorbance modulation.

The researchers say that this technique makes it possible to create lines that are only about one-tenth as wide as the wavelength of light used to create them.

Washington - If you are looking at a web page with a list of useful links, you can have Internet Explorer give you a printout of just those links. Simply open the File menu, and click Print. From the Print dialogue box, select the Options tab, and then click the check box labelled "Print table of links." You'll get a handy printout of all the links on the page. --------

Washington/Nairobi - A hijacked lifeboat with the captain of a US cargo ship held hostage was nearing the Somali shore Saturday after talks with the pirates collapsed and they fired on a US Navy vessel. The developments escalated concern for the fate of captain Richard Phillips, the US captain of the Maersk Alabama who has been held by the pirates off the Horn of Africa since Wednesday

Somali pirates obtained fuel for their hijacked lifeboat and were moving within 35 kilometres of Somalia's shore late Saturday with Phillips on board, ABC news and CNN reported.