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<title>Graduates honored with 2008 Firestone, Golden medals, and new Kennedy Prize</title>
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<pubDate>9 Jul 2008 10:55 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Doniach, Physics. David Hall , symbolic systems: &quot;Tracking the Evolution of Science&quot;; Daniel Jurafsky, Linguistics, and Christopher Manning, Computer Science. Nicholas Hoy , international relations: &quot;Constitutional Autocracy: Popular Legitimation  ...
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<title>Teenagers are the reel deal</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=177741778</link>
<pubDate>9 Jul 2008 10:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  has been shortlisted in the Languages and Film Talent Awards (LAFTAs), which celebrates the linguistic talent of Britains budding film-makers, as part of a drive to inspire 13 to  ...
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<title>Them&apos;s fightin&apos; words: Scrabulous has official rival</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=177740203</link>
<pubDate>9 Jul 2008 10:36 GMT</pubDate>
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...  restrictions, however, saying players tend to reside in the same country, given the world&amp;rsquo;s linguistic differences. More than six months in development, the EA game will be free and  ...
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<title>Seattle and its underground had share of water problems</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=177739046</link>
<pubDate>9 Jul 2008 10:21 GMT</pubDate>
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...  out, Seattle&apos;s continued success came from the lumber industry. Seattle&apos;s lumber gave us a linguistic phrase. Felled trees once slid down from Pioneer Square to ships waiting below. The  ...
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<title>5.. Online headhunters prosper despite weak economy</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=177739036</link>
<pubDate>9 Jul 2008 10:21 GMT</pubDate>
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...  funding. Urgent Career has spent the past six months developing a technology based on linguistics that analyzes and matches sales people with compatible employers. The start-up promises to reduce  ...
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<title>English Education Under Japanese Rule</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=177736123</link>
<pubDate>9 Jul 2008 09:55 GMT</pubDate>
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...  schools, i.e., agricultural, commercial, and industrial. Kim Eun-gyong is an associate professor of applied linguistics and Associate Dean of the Center for International Affairs, Information and Communications University (ICU)  ...
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<title>The Skill of Writing</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=177728370</link>
<pubDate>9 Jul 2008 09:19 GMT</pubDate>
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...  were the building blocks of discourse, the notion on par with the sentence-level structuralist linguistics and bottom-up processing. In moderate classrooms, as far as I am concerned, this would  ...
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<title>Scrabble seeks big score on Web against unauthorized Scrabulous</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=177718634</link>
<pubDate>9 Jul 2008 07:32 GMT</pubDate>
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...  restrictions, however, saying players tend to reside in the same country, given the world&apos;s linguistic differences. More than six months in development, the EA game will be free and  ...
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<title>Mayor Caruso&apos;s L.A.</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=177717999</link>
<pubDate>9 Jul 2008 07:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  and Celine Dion music pumped throughout the city 24/7. A lawsuit filed by a linguistically adroit ACLU attorney dubs this &quot;audio water-boarding.&quot; Eminent domain: In a controversial move deemed  ...
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<title>SF supervisor calls for school changes</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=177717196</link>
<pubDate>9 Jul 2008 07:17 GMT</pubDate>
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...  intended to make K-12 public schools in San Francisco more integrated academically, socio-economically and linguistically. By law, race cannot be used as a factor in school assignment. The report  ...
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<title>Game maker scrambles for Scrabble</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=177711049</link>
<pubDate>9 Jul 2008 06:18 GMT</pubDate>
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...  restrictions, however, saying players tend to reside in the same country, given the world&apos;s linguistic differences. More than six months in development, the EA game will be free and  ...
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<title>Five people arrested in connection with bomb blasts</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=177709098</link>
<pubDate>9 Jul 2008 06:13 GMT</pubDate>
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...  terrify the people. He said the blasts were aimed at paving the way for linguistic conflict to disturb peace in Karachi. Meanwhile a team of intelligence experts has been  ...
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<title>Peter Ladefoged, 80, Documented Dying Languages</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=177707423</link>
<pubDate>9 Jul 2008 05:54 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the university announced. When Ladefoged entered the field in the late 1950s, he married linguistic field work and phonetics in a new way, a UCLA linguistics professor, Pat Keating,  ...
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<title>Fouad el-Mohandes, 82, Beloved Egyptian Comedian</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=177706970</link>
<pubDate>9 Jul 2008 05:53 GMT</pubDate>
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...  an affluent family in the Abbassiya district of Cairo, el-Mohandes&apos; father, Zaki, was a linguistics scholar who encouraged his son to act after obtaining a bachelor of arts degree  ...
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<title>Michel Thomas, 90, WW II Fighter and Language Tutor to the Stars</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=177706643</link>
<pubDate>9 Jul 2008 05:53 GMT</pubDate>
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...  was sent to live with an aunt in Breslau, Germany, and then to study linguistics in France. After the Germans invaded, Thomas, by then living near Nice and organizing  ...
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