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Tablets are the starof Consumer Electronic Show

It’s raining tablets.

Hoping to nip away at Apple Inc.’s iPad and the $20 billion market it now controls, dozens of manufacturers are unveiling more than 80 touch-screen computers at the Consumer Electronics Show, the annual tech showcase here.

The rush is on not only because of the hugely successful iPad, but also because manufacturers are betting that the tablet computer will become a ubiquitous household gadget.

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Review: Show uplifting despite hard topics

Given some current attitudes, it was, as Yogi Berra famously said, “like deja vu all over again” when, in giving the Maine premiere of her one-woman performance called “Checkered Floors” at the Old Port Playhouse on Wednesday night, Cheryl Hamilton read from a 2002 letter addressed to the Somali community by the mayor of Lewiston. […]