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...fast. While Reader's Digest still boasts the world's largest magazine circulation--more than 27.8 million monthly copies sold in 19 languages--its feel-good stories and aging readership (average age: 47 and rising) have kept it out of step with the competition. Even before oral sex became a dinner-table topic, the Digest had lost resonance with generations of today's readers. The U.S. subscription base has decreased by a million since 1993. That's not terrible, but to maintain circulation levels, the magazine must add 5 million new subscribers a year. Not an easy task...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sad Story at the Digest | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

...sixth-grade humanities class at New York City's Mott Hall, the noise level has reached cacophony. It's mostly animated chatter among the students as they put final touches on oral reports they will deliver in a few minutes. But another sound adds to the din: the staccato clicking of keys on computers. In this hard-knocks Washington Heights school, where a substantial number of the students qualify for free lunches, a hardwired revolution is taking shape. All the students in the class work on their own Toshiba laptops, cutting-edge machines bought by the school district last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning By Laptop | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

...ORAL ALERT Viral infections--including HIV--can be transmitted by oral sex, concludes a review of the data. The partner whose mouth is in contact appears most at risk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Report: Mar. 2, 1998 | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

Diop says the griots have played a crucial role in strengthening the identities of the various ethnic groups in Senegal because they preserve the country's history through oral tradition...

Author: By Nanaho Sawano, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Faculty Profile | 2/26/1998 | See Source »

...Francophone literature is really a continuation of oral tradition," Diop says...

Author: By Nanaho Sawano, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Faculty Profile | 2/26/1998 | See Source »

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