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NEW YORK (Reuters) – All those e-mails — junk or otherwise — are
\n adding up.
\n In 2002, people around the globe created enough new information to fill
\n 500,000 U.S. Libraries of Congress, according to a study by faculty and
\n students at the University of California at Berkeley.<\/p>\n
\n per person — the equivalent of a stack of books 30 feet high — the
\n study by the university’s School of Information Management and Systems
\n found. <\/p>\n
\n documents, including books, journals, and others, have grown by as much
\n as 43 percent. Lyman said that much of the content is accessed on computers,
\n but users print it out.<\/p>\n