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...months before John Freeman began his treatise for a "Slow Communication Movement," the literary critic was receiving about 300 e-mails a day. And he was not alone. In the time it takes to read this sentence, some 300 million e-mails will be sent and received. On average, Americans spend more time reading e-mails than they do with their spouses. E-mail has become, he argues, "our electronic fidget." In his history of mail from cuneiform tablets to the Pony Express to Gmail, Freeman traces how far the epistolary form has come--and lays out a case...
...idea first began when Mindy McDonald, Assistant to the Resident Dean, wanted to bake pumpkin-flavored chocolate-chip cookies for the students for Halloween. Quickly, the idea spiraled into a full-fledged, four-station trick-or-treatin’ heaven for everyone...
...foreign-language classes will be one challenge to overcome. Another is confronting the contradiction that comes with promoting foreign-language study among students and continuing France's long-standing policies aimed at protecting and promoting the use of the French language at home. The Academie Française began its mission of purging the French language of impurities - often words taken from other languages - way back in 1635. The key objective of the country's 25-year-old exception culturelle is ensuring that French-language music, film and other cultural products are not dominated by English-language imports...
...popular that TV Tokyo, a major network, has a seasonal special program to determine the "King of Gluttons." This September, "food fighter" Ayari Sato won against seven competitors through three rounds of gorging. To spice it up, they weren't told what they would be eating until the round began. And tarento Gyaru Sone, or Natsuko "Gal" Sone, is a petite competitive eater and singer who appears regularly on shows, on which she might down enormous quantities of Japanese curry and rice or 40,000 calories by eating at several restaurants during the course of a program...
...Movember will be expanding into five more countries this year, giving the group growers in 10 countries, including the U.S. That gives it a big advantage over its smaller but scrappier rival, Mustaches for Kids, which began in Los Angeles in 1998 and now has about 1,000 members across the country...