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...sprinkling periods liberally throughout my text. A few hours of this, and my head was throbbing; I reverted to tapping in my letters one at a time on the onscreen keyboard. For the time being, I'll stick with Palm's tried-and-tested Graffiti alphabet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Picking a Pocket | 4/24/2000 | See Source »

Among his best known works are "Alphabet Soup," "Room to Rhyme...

Author: By Alex B. Ginsberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Heaney Will Read at Commencement | 4/21/2000 | See Source »

Gorey's best-selling books used rhyme, whimsy and a distinctive cross-hatched style to depict the macabre, from the 26 dying children (one for each letter of the alphabet) of The Gashlycrumb Tinies to the hook-nosed visitor of The Doubtful Guest, who never seems to leave...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gorey, a Master of the Macabre, Dies at 75 | 4/18/2000 | See Source »

...dreams of giga-bucks, appeared to be in the lead. But like an Aesopian tortoise, the government scientists working with the Human Genome Project have continued pushing along. In November they announced that they had completed mapping the first billion "letters"--or basic chemical units--in our DNA's alphabet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Feds Step Up the Pace | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

...then began the real business of the evening by reciting "Alphabet Soup," a poem about his experiences with language, letters and learning...

Author: By Matthew F. Quirk, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Heaney Wows Crowd With Poems, Anecdotes | 4/7/2000 | See Source »

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