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Real Food Rehab: Rules For Living Well

Dana Joy Altman | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Living Well, Finding Your Own North Star, Individualism, Authenticity, Self-Expression, Rules for Living, Martha Beck, Real Food, Beauty, Quality, Texting, The Balanced Life, Living News

I do believe in knowing what you value most and using that as a rudder to guide your life. So here are some rules for living, exactly as I wrote them two years ago.

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Text and Drive?

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 11.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Driving and Texting Ban, Texting While Driving, Illinois Texting and Driving Ban, Texting, Living News

For such a trifling thing as sending a text message, two young women's lives were ruined, and there will be many more unless and until legislative prohibitions against cell phone use of any kind are passed, and enforced.

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'Sexting' Targeted In Oklahoma Hearing

AP | TIM TALLEY | Posted 10.30.2009 | Technology

Read More: Sexting, Texting, Text Messages, Sexting Regulation, Technology News

OKLAHOMA CITY — Teenagers may think it's harmless, but sending sexually explicit pictures and messages over cell phones can lead to emotional pr...

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All Hyped Up With Nowhere To Go

B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 10.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Energy Drinks, Depression, Twitter, Antidepressants, Social Networking, Bloggers, Starbucks, Media, Media News, Facebook, Texting, Media News

We all run out of time, and there is not really a way to save it. But one of the major ways we seem to be trying to save time is in how we communicate with each other.

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My Wrestle With The Reluctant Reader

The Huffington Post | Dean Pitchford | Posted 10.21.2009 | Books

Read More: Twitter, Young Adult Literature, Boys' Books, Books, Young Adult Books, Author Signings, Boys, Texting, Pop Music, Children's Books, YA Books, Author Readings, Kids' Books, Bookstore Signings, Books News

For over twenty-five years I have worked at creating the most compressed form of popular art -- the three-minute pop song. Recording artists, publish...

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New Literacy and the Commoditization of Content

Celeste Fine | Posted 10.21.2009 | Books

Read More: Texting, Reading, Book Publishing, Vook, Literacy, Online Reading, Branding, Facebook, New Literacy, Publishing, Internet, Stanford, Books, Blogging, Books News

Perhaps product innovations, like books with video, are only as successful as they pertain to customer intimacy, and the future of books isn't inventing a better book but better meeting readers' needs.

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Email, Texting Top Social Media Gen Yers Can't Do Without

mashable.com | Posted 10.20.2009 | Technology

Read More: Gen Y Tech, Millennials Technology, Tech Addictions, Email, Twitter, Social Networking, Emailing, Social Media, Social Networks, Texting, Technology News

While Generation Y may believe that social media is for narcissists, a new behavioral study shows that the same generation spends more time on social ...

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Samsung Denver Cell Phone Study: One In Three Of Denverites Would Sooner Give Up Sex Than Phones

Posted 10.06.2009 | Denver

Read More: Cell Phones, Samsung Study, Cell Phones Sex, Samsung, Texting, Denver, Denver News

Samsung has released the results of a Denver-area consumer study that indicated nearly a third of Denver area residents would sooner give up sex for a...

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'No Texting' Is The New 'No Smoking': Bans On Texting While Driving Gain Support

Bianca Bosker | Posted 10.04.2009 | Technology

Read More: Cell Phones, Cell Phone Driving, Distracted Driving, Cell Phone, Obama Cell Phone Driving Ban, Cell Phone Driving Ban, Smart Phones, Texting Driving, Texting, Technology News

'No texting' is the new 'no smoking.' Obama, carmakers, state governments, and citizens have rallied in support of legislation that would ban drivers...

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Communication Interruptus

Shelley Hendrix Reynolds | Posted 10.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Cell Phones, Living With Autism, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Autism, Asperger's Syndrome, Facebook, Asd, Text Messaging, Asperger's, Facebook-Status, Texting, Communication, Living News

During the first 17 months of his life, my son hit development milestones perfectly on time. Then autism hit.

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Obama's Texting-While-Driving Ban Exempts Law Enforcement, National Security Personnel

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Texting Ban Law Enforcement, Texting Ban Exemptions, Obama Texting, Texting Ban, Texting, Politics News

Good news, America! President Barack Obama has seen all of your hysterical news reports and grisly British PSAs on texting while driving and has done...

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Obama Admin Calls Distracted Driving An "Epidemic"

AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 10.01.2009 | Home

Read More: Texting, Driving, Unsafe Driving, Texting While Driving, Home News

WASHINGTON — Driving while distracted is a growing peril in a nation reluctant to put down its cell phones and handheld devices even behind the ...

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Ban Hand-Held Texting and Calling While Driving, but Don't Sever the Wireless Link to Cars

Dave McCurdy | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cell Phones, Texting While Driving, Cell Phone Driving Ban, Texting, Politics News

We must address distracted driving, but we must do it without undercutting developing technologies that will help in making driving even safer.

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Would it Kill You to Use Your Turn Signal?

Tamar Abrams | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Cars, Driving, Cell Phones, Safe Driving, Teen Drivers, Parents, Texting, Teenagers, Living News

Like a reformed smoker who is overly sensitive -- and obnoxious -- to those still smoking, I am suddenly hyperaware of the dangers lurking behind the wheel of all the cars around me.

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To Tweet or Not To Tweet: That is the Question

Maggie Van Ostrand | Posted 09.23.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Abraham Lincoln, Classics, Twitter, Hamlet, Tweet, Texting, Gettysburg Address, Comedy News

We've prepared a time-saver for those hipsters, geeks, and Twitteristas who haven't the time to reduce the classics to Twitter's required 140 characters, counting spaces.

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Cybercitizens of the World Unite

Stephen Balkam | Posted 09.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Digital, Sexting, Online Safety, Family Online Safety Insitute, Stephen Balkam, Texting, Media News

Western civilization has a collective memory of what it means to be a citizen, stretching back to ancient Greece. But we are still learning what it means to be a citizen of the digital world.

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They'd Rather Text Than Eat

Lloyd Garver | Posted 11.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Wifi, Airlines, Internet Addiction, Texting, Living News

I'm not a computer addict, but some people are. It's no joke. In fact, the first American live-in treatment center for internet addiction opened recently.

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Dreams From My Grandfather

Chris Campbell | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Twitter, Richard Nixon, Joint Session of Congress, Health Care Reform, Facebook, Health Care, Barack Obama, Texting, Politics News

I only vaguely remember even meeting my grandfather, but it's everything I've learned about him since that has had such an impact on my life.

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The Techno-Loner Generation: Are You Raising a Socially Illiterate Child?

Keith Ferrazzi | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Relationships, Technology, Kids, How to Improve Your Life, Generation Y, Texting, Keith Ferrazzi, Business News

Teenagers send and receive 2,272 texts a month and spend nine hours a week absorbed in social networking sites. Does the Digital Age stupefy the next generation?

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Parents Nag Via Text-Messaging

The Washington Post | Donna St. George | Posted 10.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Text Messages, Nagging via Text Messaging, Children, Texting, Text Messaging, Parenting, Parents, Nagging, Teenagers, Living, Living News

As school starts again, there's so much more for a parent to nag about. Homework. Bedtime. Lost hours on Facebook and Xbox. The chores that need to be...

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Safety Group Seeks Ban On Texting While Driving

nytimes.com | MATT RICHTEL | Posted 09.30.2009 | Home

Read More: Texting While Driving, Driving Safety, Texts, Driving, Texting, Home News

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Sexting, Texting, and Other Back-to-School Tips

eSarcasm | Posted 09.27.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Iphone, Sexting, Vanessa Hudgens, Humor, Satire, Teens, Teen Sex, Facebook, School, Humor and Satire, Teenagers, Texting, Comedy News

If you send a pic of your ta-tas to your boy-toy, you could just as well send it to the entire world. Flash your friends in-person instead; it's far less risky, and no one's going to be able to upload it to the Internet later.

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Prediction: Katie Couric's Report on Texting Will Save More Lives Than Her Campaign on Colon Cancer. And Guess What? It Will Save Your Job as Well!

Stephen Viscusi | Posted 09.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Resume, America's Workplace Guru, Career, Charlie Gibson, Colon Cancer, Job, Katie Couric, Oprah, The View, Interview, Tyra, Texting, CBS Evening News, Business News

Texting is worse than a personal phone call. Have you even been in a retail store, such as Starbucks or McDonald's, and seen an employee texting? How do you feel?

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Surprise, Surprise! Teens Not Tweeting

NYT | CLAIRE CAIN MILLER | Posted 09.26.2009 | Home

Read More: Teens Not Twitter, Twitter, Not Tweeting, Text Messaging, Teens and Twitter, Texting, Teens, Home News

Just 11 percent of its users are aged 12 to 17, according to comScore. Instead, Twitter's unparalleled explosion in popularity has been driven by a de...

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Bush Questions Brevity of Obama's Vacation

Andy Borowitz | Posted 08.26.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Borowitz Report, Golf, Andy Borowitz, Sex, Barack Obama, Texting, Obama Golf, Martha's Vineyard, George W. Bush, Comedy News

Former president George W. Bush criticized President Barack Obama today for taking such a brief August vacation, arguing that the brevity of his summer break "sends the wrong message to terrorists."

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