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Is texting ruining this generation's spelling skillz?

by Bethany Sanders, Posted Mar 18th 2008 9:32AM

I don't watch Rachel Ray, but one day I caught her show in a doctor's waiting room. She and her guests were all screaming "EVOO!" I had no idea what she was talking about. I wandered around for an entire day muttering EVOO under my breath, until it ...
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Text messages save girl

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Feb 26th 2008 1:01PM

Before you come down too hard on your teenager for her excessive text messaging, be aware that those mad typing skillz might just save her life. That's what happened with one Northern California girl. The sixteen-year-old met thirty-seven-year-old ...
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Laws target teens texting and driving

by Sandy Maple, Posted Sep 13th 2007 3:36PM

In my experience, talking on a cell-phone while driving is dangerous. I used to do it and many times found myself at my destination having no recollection of actually driving there because I was yakking on my phone the whole time. Maybe it is just ...
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Quick-texting teen saves herself from intruder

by Jonathon Morgan, Posted Jun 14th 2007 5:02PM

In spite of complaints by educators that cell phone text-messaging is ruining the way kids communicate, it turns out those lighting-fast thumbs may occasionally come in handy. A 17-year-old Malaysian girl was woken up by a noise near her bedroom, ...
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Text messaging a threat to written language?

by Jonathon Morgan, Posted Apr 25th 2007 5:01PM

Earlier this week we learned that a 13-year-old won $25,000 for managing to type "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" in 15 seconds on her cell phone. Today comes vindication for grumpy English teachers everywhere: a recent study finds the prevalence ...
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Teen wins $25,000 in texting contest

by Jonathon Morgan, Posted Apr 23rd 2007 3:02PM

Some 13-year-old from Pennsylvania managed to text "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" in 15 seconds on her cell phone. It just took me longer than that to type it on my computer keyboard. Morgan Pozgar, the world's new text-message champion, took a ...
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Does text messaging impact literacy?

by Kristin Darguzas, Posted Sep 11th 2006 12:30PM

I don't have much occasion to spend time with pre-teens and teenagers, except when I take the bus to work on days Rob drives Nolan. My bus is on a "economically challenged" line, and I've been saddened by the number of hollow-eyed 14-year olds with ...
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