After weeks of anxiously checking the mail for job offers and plane tickets, I received a single reply, from a professor at Berkeley.

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The Wi-Fi will come in handy for things like checking e-mail and browsing the Web when you're near a hotspot or perhaps within range of your own wireless network at home.

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The original device was useful enough: It shipped with a built-in Apple apps for checking the Internet, weather, e-mail, texts, stocks, calendars and the time.

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Many high school seniors can be seen lurking around mailboxes and checking e-mail even more often than usual, waiting desperately for colleges' decisions.

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Meanwhile, Dr. Jeffrey Koplan, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, reiterated that the public should be vigilant about checking their mail but not fearful.

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