[originaltext]America’s universities are the envy of the world with 60% of all

America’s universities are the envy of the world with 60% of all U.S. high school graduates attending college, while in Germany, it’s 30%; in France, 28%; and in Britain, only 20%.

For those time-starved consumers, shopping from e-Bay is more convenient than driving to Wal-Mart. In 2006, U.S. consumers purchased $ 28 billion of goods over the Internet, and it almost doubled the 2005 total.