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I was wrong about the iPhone 4s. I said it would be great. I predicted it would be the best phone ever built. The truth, it turns out, is that the iPhone 4s kind of sucks.

There. I said it.

And I might be wrong again with the headline for this column. I don't have much faith in Apple to get it right for the upcoming iPhone 5, either. The iPhone 4s has shaken my confidence in Apple's legendary ability to bang out hit after hit.

At a middle school I recently visited, I learned that cool girls skip lunch. Girls complained to me about being famished by dinner time, overeating, and not understanding why. They were fearful of eating in front of their peers.

Admission to America's national parks will be free on 17 days in 2012 to encourage people to explore the nation's natural beauty, officials said Monday.

The National Park Service announced next year's free days will be...

History suggests that the line between creativity and madness is a fine one, but a small group of people known as schizotypes are able to walk it with few problems and even benefit from it.

A new study confirms that their enhanced creativity may come from using more of the right side of the brain than the rest of us.

Spotify, which launched in the U.S. over the summer, last month said that all new users would need to create their accounts through Facebook. The streaming service lets users listen to an unlimited amount of music for the first six months for free, with advertising, as long as the user listens on a computer. After the first six months unlimited computer access costs $5 a month, also without ads. An ad-free version for smartphones costs $10 a month

I’m a bad man. I simply do not pay attention the way I used to. I do so many things that I promised myself I would never do: Work on the computer when I’m supposed to be listening to someone on the phone. Watch my tweets flow by on my laptop while someone is standing right in front of me, talking to me. And worst of all, I sometimes Tweet or text while walking on New York City’s crowded streets and avenues.

What’s happened to me? Better question: What’s happening to us?

Some things never change. Other things never stay the same. Take the iPhone and Android. The iPhone is an iPhone is an iPhone. Android? It went from being the ugly stepsister to the belle of the ball.

Everybody likes to speculate about which social network is “better” or will “kill” the others.

I used to engage in such speculation, too. But recently I’ve come to believe that not only will the Big Three -- Facebook, Google+ and Twitter -- survive and thrive indefinitely, but that it’s a good thing they will.

I’ll go even further: I hope the fourth social network, MySpace, can be somehow turned around and brought back to growth.

Why? Because we need it. That's right. I said it: The world needs MySpace (or something like it).

Kari Jobe was born to sing. Since she was 3 years old, this daughter of a traveling Texas minister has felt called to write songs for people hurting for the Lord, people who couldn’t find the words themselves.

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