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Movie Theatre Etiquette: Why Can't We Get Tougher on People Who Use Cell Phones?

Michael Russnow | Posted 04.23.2008 | Entertainment


Michael Russnow

Is there some method to prevent cell phone entry to a movie hall or to impose such a heavy penalty if caught that audience members will think twice before committing such a thoughtless act?

Watering the Pennsylvania Grassroots

The Uptake | Posted 04.21.2008 | Home


The Uptake

Last-minute adrenaline-fueled volunteer recruitment in Pennsylvania: it looks miserable, fun, rumpled, regimented, silly and important at once. A snapshot of our mad democracy in action.

Email Is Changing the Way We Communicate and Historians Are Worried

Tom Alderman | Posted 03.05.2008 | Media


Tom Alderman

You can shred a document and it's gone. You can erase a tape and it's blank. You can delete your email and trash your computer but your email is alive -- somewhere, on somebody's server.

Merriam-Webster's Word Of The Year? Woot!

Reuters | Jason Szep | Posted 12.12.2007 | Business


"w00t," an expression of joy coined by online gamers, was crowned word of the year on Tuesday by the publisher of a leading U.S. dictionary. Massachu...


 

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