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...that matter, the average American? The answer, say deaf activists, is that their peers do not read English. The first language of more than half of America's deaf, whose number is variously estimated at between 250,000 and 2 million, is American Sign Language (ASL). That elegant mode of communication, a combination of signs and gestures, is not based on English. Thus the English reading level of the average deaf adult at the completion of formal education is usually placed somewhere between the third and the eighth grade. Says New York social-services counselor Donna Leshne: "The knowledge base...
...skin pigment, the melanists often fail to differentiate between the two and ignore the fact that all humans have similar amounts of neuromelanin. According to the melanists, neuromelanin can convert light and magnetic fields to sound and back again, and can capture sunlight and hold it in a "memory mode." Furthermore, they say, melanin granules are minicomputers that can respond to and analyze stimuli without interacting with the brain...
...showed that most people agreed with Hillary that the Republicans were playing partisan games. But the public also didn't like what little it knew about Whitewater, and was not prepared to grant Hillary the automatic benefit of the doubt she seemed to expect. "She's still in the mode of saying, 'I didn't do anything wrong,' " said a White House source. "So why should she do a mea culpa?" Said the First Lady last week: "I have to admit, for the last two years I was bewildered by people's interest in this. It happened many years...
...spoons out of everybody else's mouths. And this could be anywhere, this could be anyone else..." It's not Keats, but in the context of TKP's songs it works as well as any rock and roll lyrics ever have, setting up a mood and a mode while complimenting your intelligence in the process. Sometimes the slow triplets--TKP loved to play triples, for some reason--even conceal a useful, if cynical, epigram: "In all events considerations reach a point where resignation seems a way of getting everything you need..." introduces, mildly enough, a song whose chorus...
...pacify--whoever we are, whether Blacks or whites, Jews or Gentiles. So there are, sadly, some African-Americans--on and off campuses--who must project their anger and pain onto others. And of course, history's usual list of scapegoats are well known, with anti-Semitism persisting as a mode of this kind of cruel scapegoating...