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...Oralism was only sporadically successful, and schools that subscribed to it or to related techniques found that students still learned ASL on the sly. "Try as they might, they were unable to stamp out sign language," says Northeastern University linguist Harlan Lane, author of The Mask of Benevolence: Disabling the Deaf Community. Yet "signing" would wait another century for its renaissance: in the 1960s, when linguists certified it as just as autonomous, flexible and rich as English, it became the core of an identity movement that still flourishes today. More than half a million ASL speakers -- a group sometimes plagued...
Students trying to send e-mail this weekend may have been better off just using a stamp...
Just like a pair of ex-beaus, star gets her own postage stamp...
Surprise! Supreme Court nominee Stephen Breyer sailed through the Senate Judiciary Committee, whose 10 Democrats and eight Republicans voted unanimously to send the Boston moderate to the bench. Breyer watchers say the full Senate will rubber-stamp him as soon as Friday...
PAPUA NEW GUINEA. "We started from a postage stamp. Our toehold was as small as that." So recalls Greg Gurbach, a field construction manager for Chevron, of the company's initial sortie into the mountainous jungle that surrounds Lake Kutubu, one of the most pristine spots in the South Pacific. The year was 1986; Chevron headed a consortium that had come to explore a reservoir 1.5 miles beneath the jungle floor that was thought to contain 225 million bbl. of high-quality...