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Sunday, April 27, 2003
High school students help senior citizens surf the Internet - SUSAN BALDRIGE, The Associated Press
Sometimes they affectionately call it "the box" or "the thing." It gives them consternation and confuses them regularly. But they're trying. Oh, how hard these senior citizens are trying to learn how to use a computer and the Internet. "My neck is stiff and my bifocals are slowing me down," said Harry Robinson, 70 years old, as he sat in front of a computer terminal... The school district offered Millersville senior citizens four free classes on how to use computers and get online. Then the district offered the 29 students in a social psychology class to teach them.
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