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Title: India Tech Institute Curbs Internet Use - RAMOLA TALWAR BADAM, Associated Press Post by: Mark David on March 27, 2007, 11:09:21 AM A half hour before the clock strikes 12, India's top technology institute pulls the plug on Internet access in students' dorm rooms. Attend classes, turn out for sports, and socialize - is the Indian Institute of Technology's message to students, many of whom were showing up for class bleary-eyed, if it all, after late nights spent Internet surfing and gaming. "We found attendance for the first lecture at 8:30 a.m. was falling," said Aruna Thosar-Dixit, an IIT spokeswoman. "Students were not alert, they were sleepy, some were even sleeping."
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