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<p><strong><em>For more on cellphone use around the world, see the Slate/New America Foundation map, "<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/map_of_the_week...
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<p>You quondam liberal-artists out there—veterans of lit-crit and queer theory, men and womyn formerly fluent in what Said said and all that Lacan cant—may yet remember that we live our l...
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<p>Los Angeles police are investigating a teacher aide at Miramonte Elementary School who allegedly <a href="http://bostonherald.com/news/national/west/view/20120208letters_from_la_teacher...