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...teacher with a deaf student in your class, or if you have a deaf friend or work colleague, you'll know that communication between the hearing and nonhearing can sometimes be a bit tricky. Learning the basics of sign language is a good start, but there will always be words you don't know. If you're stuck on the sign for lunch, you could consult a language textbook, but piecing together static signs on the page isn't very efficient...
...help keep the conversation flowing, the University of Bristol's Centre for Deaf Studies in England has developed the first-ever video dictionary for mobile phones. Available at www.mobilesign.org, it features over 5,000 words in British Sign Language demonstrated by a Centre staff member. The service is easy to use - you type in the word you want and then click on the video file - and it costs a mere 2? per sign. Once you have downloaded the video to your phone, it's yours to keep...
...site is just the first high-tech step in the Centre's mission to break down communication barriers between deaf and hearing people. A British Sign Language phone phrasebook should be released in the next year, plus the Centre has started to build a basic foreign-language phrasebook at www.deafstation.org, which will allow signers from Britain, Germany, Spain and Sweden to speak to each other...
...that's a harder attitude for older people - who grew up with more cultural and actual segregation - to accept or to mimic. Part of the problem with Imus' joke was that it was so tone-deaf. "That's some rough girls from Rutgers," he said. "Man, they got tattoos ... That's some nappy-headed hos there." The joke played badly in every community, raising memories of beauty bias (against darker skin and kinkier hair) that dates back to slavery. Tracy Riley, 37, of Des Moines, Iowa, who is of mixed race, said the incident was among her four kids' first...
...Season six for American Idol has caused us to ask some fundamental questions about the reality television phenomenon. Show judge Simon Cowell repeatedly chides contestants, "This is a singing competition." But is it really? When talented singers such as Gina Glocksen are voted off in favor of a tone-deaf Sanjaya Malakar, with his trainwreck performances, the question is whether Idol is really a singing competition, or something altogether different...