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...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...
...productive political conversation with a respected authority, and he described his guest as “one of the keenest political observers on the landscape.” “It’s a very interesting time in American politics,” Lazar said in a phone interview before the event. “[Alter] has a kind of credibility right now.” Alter, who is a former Crimson news editor, discussed his personal experience with Congressional corruption and criticized the mistakes of the current administration during his talk. “We missed...
...interview component, it took three tries to establish a good connection via satellite phone. Iraq’s first democratic elections would be held shortly, and the military stood on edge as officials predicted that horrific violence would soon erupt...
...employees dodged bullets and huddled together. Tom Murphy, a 19-year-old freshman, was locked in a Robinson Hall classroom from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. He and the 11 students, some strangers, held hands and prayed on bended knee. Like many others, Murphy had a cell phone, but the lines were jammed, and he couldn't get through...