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Mobile world: Written word may be more informal
Naomi S. Baron, professor of linguistics at American University in Washington, is author of "Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World."Here's a brain teaser: How is leprosy like high school writing assignments? No, the answer isn't "Avoid both like the plague." Rather, it involves distinguishing between a worrisome condition and its cause. Take leprosy. For centuries, people believed...Tags: Long Island
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'Moyers on Democracy' by Bill Moyers
Moyers on Democracy
Bill Moyers
Doubleday: 416 pp., $26.95
THERE'S A Jeremiah among us and his name is Bill Moyers. He is a product of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, having worked for the president and witnessed firsthand many of that administration's...Tags: Philosophy, Government, Heads of State, Censorship, William Sloane Coffin
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Lockdown at Brooklyn school after student reports gun
STAFF WRITERA Brooklyn school has been locked down because of a report that a student had a gun. No injuries were reported. Department of Education spokeswoman Margie Feinberg says police were called to John Dewey High School after a teacher saw a student drop a gun...Tags: Police, Brooklyn (King's, New York), New York, King's County, Schools
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Drier and wiser
Tribune staff reporterIt wasn't Katrina. But the recent storms were painful enough for those who lost power, got water or otherwise went into battle-mode against the elements and subsequent power failure. In between bailing water, hunting down portable generators and "dining"...Tags: Research, Chemicals, Emergency Incidents, Macro Economics, Satellite and Cable Service
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Gravesend a neighborhood of change
Special to amNewYorkBack in the city's Dutch colonial times, Gravesend was Brooklyn's only English settlement. It was founded in 1643 by Lady Deborah Moody as a neighborhood for religious dissenters, including Anabaptists and Quakers. The original town plan can be discerned...Tags: Casino and Gambling, Apartments, Brighton, Taj Mahal, Tourism and Leisure
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Got discipline?
JONATHAN ZIMMERMAN wrote "Innocents Abroad: American Teachers in the American Century."WHAT ARE schools for? For the last decade, I've taught a history course with that title at New York University. My students and I examine the different purposes that Americans have assigned to public schools, including: A. to teach the great...Tags: History, Clarence Thomas, New Hampshire, Alaska, Horace Mann
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Former expressway chief fights bid to oust him from Rollins post
Sentinel Staff WritersAllan Keen, after months of controversy that led to his resignation as head of the region's expressway authority, is fighting back against critics who now want him ousted from a prestigious post at Rollins College. Keen's personal attorney has accused at...Tags: Government, Board of Directors, National Government, Orange County (Florida), Winter Park
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Growing Pains
Staff WriterThe two brick buildings sit shoulder to shoulder on Old Jerusalem Road, bookends to the war of words that tore through Levittown in its adolescence. One, completed in 1957, honors Jonas E. Salk, the doctor and microbiologist who developed a polio...Tags: Teachers Unions, Dwight David Eisenhower, Kansas, Property Tax, Economic Policy
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