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...EDUCATION 64% Percentage of U.S. teenagers who use informal text-message slang in their written schoolwork, including abbreviations like "LOL" (38%) and smiley-face emoticons (25%) 56% Percentage of teens surveyed who consider good writing to be "essential" later in life...
...Harvard audience rather than Universal Dance Association judges this weekend, the CDT members look forward to the opportunity to showcase their individual dance personalities instead of mere technical precision. Together, Calandrelli and Euler-Hogan are choreographing an ebullient jazz number to Gnarls Barkley’s “Smiley Faces,” a piece that allows them to draw on their own experience with a looser, stylized form of jazz dance. “Out in the sun havin’ fun and you’re feeling free / And I can tell you how hard this life...
Joyner, by many accounts, is considered an urban industry pioneer. His decision in 1996 to hire former Black Entertainment Television host Tavis Smiley to provide daily political commentary on The Tom Joyner Morning Show was pivotal in raising political activism and awareness among blacks via the airwaves. His endeavors, which continued to gain momentum with both Bill Clinton administrations and the campaigns of Al Gore and John Kerry, have extended this election season to include a free hotline for voters to report poll site irregularities. (Joyner will testify in front of Congress this week on the subject...
...miniskirts and ponchos and were dangling from chains around the necks of guys you would expect to see at the Playboy mansion. Duplicated endlessly as a hip fashion accessory, it threatened to devolve into a meaningless emblem of benign and groovy sentiment. It started looking corny, a kind of smiley face before there were smiley faces...
...ready now to play a nice, smiley heroine? Yes, I would love to play someone on the upswing of life! Someone discovering love, or some character full of positive strength that helps others. Someone who combs their hair! No such luck in Clint Eastwood's next film [The Changeling]. But the darker side of humanity is one better explored in the world of make believe than my own life. I have a lot of love and laughter in my own life, so it's a lovely trade...