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There is a special place in copy-editing hell for the writers and producers of menus. Jay Leno, of course, gets great mileage out of them on his show. Here's one I was looking at because one of my favorite TV personalities, Guy Fieri of "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives" [...]
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Number of comments: 3  Filter magazine's review of the Regina Spektor album "Far" begins: The lowercase 'f' in far is telling. No, it isn't. The review continues to lowercase the album title (and, in an extra added bonus blow to reading comprehension, uses neither italics nor quotation marks), presumably because [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:31pm EST by Bill
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Number of comments: 0 There's a long-running BBC TV show called SMart. It's about art and it's aimed at children. So why the name 'SMart'? Well, obviously, the word 'smart' contains within it the word 'art'. So far, so good. It's just that capital 'M' that bugs me. I would have [...]
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The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says young women (under 21) who are not sexually active do not need to be screened for cervical cancer. The new recommendations say women under age 30 should get Pap smears every two years, rather than annually, and those over age 30 should [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:32am EST
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Number of comments: 2  After All, It Worked Pretty Well For Him 'Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.' --Albert Einstein. Like most of what the great one did and said, this seemingly simple maxim contains deeper layers of insight. How are you [...]
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Q: In the song "Lullaby of Broadway," there's a line about the "daffodils? at Angelo's and Maxie's. Maybe ?daffodils? refers to chorus girls or such, but I suspect that it?s being used here to describe gays. Am I off base? A: "Lullaby of Broadway" celebrates "The rumble of the [...]
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Number of comments: 0 Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Brysac, for the Pulitzer Center
 Beach cricket, Kannur
Kannur, November 19 ? Cricket in India is not just a pastime, it is a passion. This was confirmed afresh as we arrived today in Kannur, a seaside city on the northern coast of Kerala. [...]
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Number of comments: 2  A defensive lapse at Wichita gives the annoying weasel Todd Tiahrt a free shot at his opponent's fusebox. Let's have a look, in case something similar crops up around the country. The problem isn't the story, which manages to note in the second graf [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:05am EST by fev
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Comcast, the nation's biggest cable provider, is about to usher in a sea change for television through technology called "authenticated streaming." It is expected to launch nationwide to 15 million customers before Dec. 11. In short, this technology will allow you to watch television programs on your broadband-connected computer. [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:00am EST
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Number of comments: 0 The Colorado Springs Independent has a stinging piece on Freedom Communications and its outsourcing of staff work.
This editor really says it all but read the whole piece.
"Companies always screw their employees, unless it's a company who realizes its value is in having intellectual property," says Al Lewis, award-winning columnist [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:51pm EST by Pam
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Number of comments: 0  And this just in* from MSNBC's sports desk: Kansas eeks win! Tnx to Sean for the screen grab. Now stay tuned for UNC vs. OSU. * OK, "just in yesterday" -- busy times around the old manse. [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:35pm EST by fev
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Number of comments: 0 The Wikipedia page on Derby, Iowa begins: Derby is a city in Lucas County, Iowa, United States. The population was 131 at the 2000 census. A city with 131 inhabitants! That made me laugh. Even St David's, the UK's smallest city, has a population of 1,800 (ish). [...]
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Number of comments: 0  What are you supposed to do when you want to report on a survey, but the numbers don't quite say what you want them to? Listen and attend as the Fair 'n' Balanced Network offers two solutions: 1) Ignore inconvenient numbers 2) Lie about [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 1:54pm EST by fev
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Jason Motlagh, Special to the Pulitzer Center
Virginia Quarterly Review
Over the past two years the Pulitzer Center has supported Jason Motlagh's reporting from south Asia, working in collaboration with print and broadcast outlets to produce extraordinary projects on India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan. Over the next four [...]
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Q: Here?s a pet peeve of mine. In the last 10 years or so, people have been saying things like "the exact same time" in place of what I think should be "exactly the same time." (Even Leonard Lopate does it on WNYC.) Please enlighten me if I?m wrong about [...]
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Number of comments: 8 The Act of Writing As an Exercise in Honesty 'Somehow, when we start writing, all the lies we told ourselves, all the deceptions and mistaken beliefs that we held up as a shield, are challenged. We can do it in prose or poetry, in fiction or non-fiction, in a [...]
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Two days a week, about 50 steps from my desk, sits another writer in another office finishing up another book. His name is Tom French. We met years and years ago at a Bruce Springsteen concert, and we have been writing pals ever since. We share the same agent and [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 4:43pm EST
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Since my book " Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer" was conceived on this Web site, I would like to bring you up to date on what has happened to the book since its publication three years ago. I also have some news on how you can [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 4:42pm EST
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Number of comments: 3  The company behind the adhesive 'No More Nails', UniBond, also makes a foam filler called 'No More Big Gaps'. What a great name. However while 'No More Nails' is a substitute for nails (in certain circumstances), 'No More Big Gaps' is not [...]
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Number of comments: 0 Rebecca Byerly, for the Pulitzer Center While people across the globe are becoming more aware that the glaciers in the western Himalaya are receding, few know how information about the glaciers, weather systems, and river levels in remote regions of the world like Kashmir are gathered. Cut off from the [...]
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Number of comments: 0 Jason Motlagh, Special to the Pulitzer Center
Virginia Quarterly Review
Over the past two years the Pulitzer Center has supported Jason Motlagh's reporting from south Asia, working in collaboration with print and broadcast outlets to produce extraordinary projects on India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan. Over the next four [...]
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Q: Here in America, we have cans and can openers. But in Britain, they have tins and tin openers. Our canned goods come from canneries. Do the British get theirs from tinneries? Yes, I know that consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds (or something like that). A: Excuse [...]
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