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...IM Slang Translation Key for all you newbies...
...cafe in Beddawi camp in northern Lebanon, one teenager leaned over to show me his girlfriend in Gaza, smiling out at him through a grainy, time-delayed webcam shot. Men and women can communicate with an ease and frankness that Palestinian social mores are less permissive of. In his IM window, the young Palestinian book-ended a flirtatious message to his Gazan girlfriend with a line of heart and angel icons. He flashed a quick grin and hit enter...
...hallmarks of Palestinian cultural resistance - poetry, graffiti, commemorative objects - that can be found on the walls of camps and in Palestinian homes now adorn the cyber-surfaces of "e-Palestine." IM windows are decorated with digital renderings of the Key, a symbol of exile that hangs on the walls of living rooms. The figure of Handala, cartoonist Naji al-Ali's iconic homage to the Palestinian refugee, adorns many social networking profiles. This year, to mark the sixtieth year of exile, what the Palestinians call the Nakbah - or "disaster" in Arabic - entire days in chatrooms and forums were dedicated...
...specific book, according to Joe Bourneuf, the head of the reference section in Widener Library. Bourneuf also said that students who have longer, more complicated questions—such as those regarding senior theses—should still contact the librarian of their academic department. “IM is only good for short and simple conversations,” he said. Deborah Kelley-Millburn, who is a research librarian in Widener, said she expects the new program to answer the growing number of questions she has fielded during her five years managing comments and queries. According...
...called executive functions - planning, setting priorities, organizing thoughts, suppressing impulses, weighing the consequences of one's actions. In other words, the final part of the brain to grow up is the part capable of deciding, I'll finish my homework and take out the garbage, and then I'll IM my friends about seeing a movie...