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Verbal Energy Pupils who have yet to unfold their wings
We get it that pre-K is the hot new thing in education – but are 4-year-olds really 'students'?
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Facebook Home: Teens won't want it dominating their Android smart phone
Facebook Home, Mark Zuckerberg's super app for Google's Android OS unveiled yesterday, despite its name, won't be much of a home for teens. They busy themselves by switching from app to app and won't appreciate how Facebook Home comands their smart phone.
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Verbal Energy Abdicating, resigning, or just stepping down?
Changes in Rome, the Netherlands, and Cuba illustrate our vocabulary of transition.
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Verbal Energy Walking back, to avoid climbing down
A pedestrian metaphor proves to have legs in this electoral season
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Verbal Energy Flying to center field with the boys of autumn
A newspaper account of a 14-inning ball game makes a point about irregular verbs.
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Fire at 1 World Trade Center: maybe yes, maybe no. Confused?
The New York Fire Department and the owner of 1 World Trade Center give conflicting accounts of a report of fire Wednesday at the building, which is under construction at the site of the 9/11 attacks.
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As Mayer joins Yahoo, enthusiasm runs high but earnings slip lower (+video)
Yahoo's second-quarter report showed a slight decline in income and revenue, but marginal improvements in search and ad revenue. It highlights what Marissa Mayer, the company's new CEO, will need to do: redefine Yahoo, explain why it's useful to users, and help it stand out from Google and Facebook.
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Horizons Sony SmartWatch: The littlest Android device
Sony SmartWatch brings Android to a wrist near you. But do people want this Dick Tracy-like gadget from Sony?
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Verbal Energy A new Word of the Year seizes its place?
The most striking thing about one of this year's leading contenders for Word of the Year may be how straightforward it is.
12/12/2011 11:28 am -
Verbal Energy Are we really good with this? Well, no.
Is 'I'm good' really a universal American response to 'How are you?'
11/23/2011 08:00 am -
Verbal Energy Stop the press! It's no news conference ...
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's first-ever official session with reporters was a reminder just how useful a term 'the press' still is.
05/27/2011 12:49 pm -
Opinion Want high-quality news? Pay for it.
Google, Yahoo, and The Huffington Post make money on free content by externalizing the costs of production. It's time to change that. Contrary to popular belief, information does not want to be free. Creating good information is expensive – and it should cost us something.
05/13/2011 11:10 am -
Gaddafi? Kadafi? Qaddafi? What's the correct spelling?
You say, Gaddafi, we say Qaddafi. Other variations on the leader of Libya include "Gathafi," "Kadafi," and "Gadafy," creating an unholy mess for newspaper editors.
02/22/2011 05:22 pm -
Stir It Up! Coca-Cola recipe: Coke responds
Coca-Cola recipe: After an episode of 'This American Life' aired what they claimed is the original Coca-Cola recipe, the beverage giant responded with claims that the formula for the real thing is still a secret.
02/16/2011 12:08 pm -
Backchannels Greetings readers (Hi Mom!) and apologies
01/14/2011 05:14 pm -
Words of the year not what they used to be
Slim pickings for this year's 'word' prompt the Monitor's language columnist to suggest some rules for dealing with coinages.
12/29/2010 01:17 pm -
Horizons Where do I vote? Ask Google.
Google has unveiled a handful of tools to help Americans find their local polling station by zip code – and track the latest poll numbers once they've left.
11/02/2010 11:27 am -
The Monitor's View Merkel on failed German multiculturalism: Other countries should listen up
German leader Angela Merkel bluntly says the 40-year experiment to integrate Turks and Germans has failed. But she's not abandoning the idea of assimilating immigrants in Germany. And neither should other countries, including the United States.
10/18/2010 04:59 pm -
The Entrepreneurial Mind Why tort reform is necessary for economic recovery
A new study finds that small businesses are the most impacted by liability costs. This growing cost will hinder small business during the recovery.
07/27/2010 04:20 pm -
The Adam Smith Institute Blog Government intervention and yuan revaluation
Continued micromanagement of the vast and increasingly complex Chinese economy will lead to mistakes which will threaten social stability.
07/09/2010 04:09 pm -
Horizons Google Me rumor suggests Google is gunning for Facebook
Google Me is the name of a new social network purportedly being developed by Google. Should Facebook be shaking in its boots?
06/28/2010 06:24 pm -
The Shallows
Is the Internet making us intellectually shallow?
06/21/2010 07:35 am -
Horizons Can Google TV do what so many have failed at?
Google TV wants to blend television and the Web. Get in line, buddy.
05/20/2010 07:37 pm -
Verbal Energy 'Including' everything but the kitchen sink
Is a workhorse preposition subtly shifting its meaning, the Monitor's language columnist wonders.
05/12/2010 03:57 pm -
Nashville flood: The South's self-help disaster
While the Nashville, Tennessee, flood will bring federal aid, some complain the area became the nation's hidden disaster. But many Tennesseans are happy to clean up the mess on their own.
05/08/2010 04:05 pm
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