When Gretchen Baxter gets home from work as a New York City book editor, she checks her Blackberry at the door. 'I think we are attached to these devices in a way that is not always positive,' says Baxter,who'd rather focus at home on her husband and 12-year-old daughter. 'It's there and it beckons . That's human nature (but)...we kind of get crazy sometimes and we don't know where it should stop.' 

Americans are connected at unprecedented levels93% now use cell phones or wireless devices;one third of those are 'smart phones' that allow users to browse the Web and check e-mail,among other things. The benefits are obvious: checking messages on the road,staying in touch with friends and family,efficiently using time once spent waiting around. The downside:often,we're effectively disconnecting from those in the same room. 

That's why,despite all the technology that makes communicating easier than ever,2010 was the Year We Stopped Talking to One Another. From texting at dinner to posting on Facebook from work or checking e-mail while on a date,the connectivity revolution is creating a lot of divided attention,not to mention social anxiety. Many analysts say it's time to step back and reassess. 

'What we're going to see in the future is new opportunities for people to be plugged in and connected like never before,' says Scott Campbell. 'It can be a good thing,but I also see new ways the traditional social fabric is getting somewhat torn apart.' 

Our days are filled with beeps and pings*----many of which pull us away from tasks at hand or face-to-face conversations. We may feel that the distractions are too much,but we can't seem to stop posting,texting or surfing. 

'We're going through a period of adjustment and rebalancing,' says Sherry Turkle and she wants to remind people that technology can be turned off. 

'Our human purposes are to really have connections with people,' she says. 'We have to reclaim it. It's not going to take place by itself.' What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Where does Gretchen work?
2. What does she do?
3. Does she have an iPhone?
4. What kind of phone does she have?
5. Does she use it at home?
6. What does she focus on instead?
7. How many people use cell phones?
8. How many of those are smartphones?
9. Is there a downside to being connected?
10. Does this effect face to face conversations?
11. How?
Answer: 1. New York City
2. she's an editor
3. no
4. a Blackberry
5. no
6. her husband and 12-year-old daughter
7. 93%
8. one third
9. we're effectively disconnecting from those in the same room
10. yes
11. Our days are filled with beeps and pings

CHAPTER XXXVI 

Norgate set down the telephone receiver and turned to Anna, who was seated in an easy-chair by his side. 

"Selingman is down-stairs," he announced. "I rather expected I should see something of him as I didn't go to the club this afternoon. You won't mind if he comes up?" 

"The man is a nuisance," Anna declared, with a little grimace. "I was perfectly happy, Francis, sitting here before the open window and looking out at the lights in that cool, violet gulf of darkness. I believe that in another minute I should have said something to you absolutely ravishing. Then your telephone rings and back one comes to earth again!" 

Norgate smiled as he held her hand in his. 

"We will get rid of him quickly, dearest," he promised. 

There was a knock at the door, and Selingman entered, his face wreathed in smiles. He was wearing a long dinner coat and a flowing black tie. He held out both his hands. 

"So this is the great news that has kept you away from us!" he exclaimed. "My congratulations, Norgate. You can never say again that the luck has left you. Baroness, may I take advantage of my slight acquaintance to express my sincere wishes for your happiness?" 

They wheeled up a chair for him, and Norgate produced some cigars. The night was close. They were on the seventh story, overlooking the river, and a pleasant breeze stole every now and then into the room. 

"You are well placed here," Selingman declared. "Myself, I too like to be high up."  What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Whose hand did Norgate hold?
2. What is his first name?
3. Who does Anna find annoying?
4. What was his attire when he came into the room?
5. What does Norgate pull out when they are seated?
6. What level of the building are they in?
7. Is Selingman happy with that?
8. How soon is Anna assured he will be there?
9. What snapped Anna out of her gazing at the scenery?
10. What does Selingman call Anna?
11. What was Seligman's attitude when he knocked on the door?
Answer: 1. Anna
2. Francis
3. Selingman
4. long dinner coat and a flowing black tie
5. cigars
6. seventh story
7. Yes
8. quickly
9. telephone rings
10. a nuisance
11. Happy

Within hours of becoming a national hero, a viral video star and the top topic on Twitter, Charles Ramsey talked about having trouble getting sleep. 

It wasn't because of all the excitement that followed his knocking down a Cleveland neighbor's door, freeing three women and a girl who police say were held hostage for years. 

Instead, Ramsey told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Tuesday, it was about knowing he had lived for a year near the captive women on the city's West Side. 

"Up until yesterday the only thing that kept me from losing sleep was the lack of money," the restaurant dishwasher said on "Anderson Cooper 360." 

"I could have done this last year, not this hero stuff," said Ramsey. "Just do the right thing." 

Ramsey recounted Monday night's drama, when he heard a girl scream "like a car had hit a kid." 

He ran from his living room, clutching a half-eaten McDonald's Big Mac, to the house and helped free a woman identified as Amanda Berry. 

"Amanda said, 'I've been trapped in here. He won't let me out. It's me and my baby." 

Who are the three women freed in Cleveland? 

Ramsey and a man named Angel Cordero broke down the door, CNN affiliate WEWS reported in an earlier interview heard around the world. 

Ramsey told CNN he had never seen Berry before Monday, and at first, he could not place the name. 

"Berry didn't register with me until I was on the phone, like wait a minute, I thought this girl was dead."  What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who knocked down a door?
2. Who heard something?
3. What did he hear?
4. Did he become famous?
5. Why?
6. Who did he rescue?
7. What was he eating?
8. When did he do this?
9. How many more people did he rescue?
10. Did he also rescue a child?
11. What reporter did he talk to?
12. With which news company?
13. When?
14. How long had he been near the women?
Answer:
1. Ramsey and Angel Cordero
2. Ramsey
3. he heard a girl scream
4. yes
5. he became a national hero
6. Amanda Berry
7. a Big Mac
8. Monday night
9. two
10. yes
11. Anderson Cooper
12. CNN
13. Tuesday
14. a year