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...teacher with a deaf student in your class, or if you have a deaf friend or work colleague, you'll know that communication between the hearing and nonhearing can sometimes be a bit tricky. Learning the basics of sign language is a good start, but there will always be words you don't know. If you're stuck on the sign for lunch, you could consult a language textbook, but piecing together static signs on the page isn't very efficient...
...help keep the conversation flowing, the University of Bristol's Centre for Deaf Studies in England has developed the first-ever video dictionary for mobile phones. Available at www.mobilesign.org, it features over 5,000 words in British Sign Language demonstrated by a Centre staff member. The service is easy to use - you type in the word you want and then click on the video file - and it costs a mere 2? per sign. Once you have downloaded the video to your phone, it's yours to keep...
...site is just the first high-tech step in the Centre's mission to break down communication barriers between deaf and hearing people. A British Sign Language phone phrasebook should be released in the next year, plus the Centre has started to build a basic foreign-language phrasebook at www.deafstation.org, which will allow signers from Britain, Germany, Spain and Sweden to speak to each other...
...measure research success according to impact on human welfare.” A letter to President-elect Drew G. Faust calling for “a more socially conscious technology transfer policy” at Harvard was also available for students to sign. Connie E. Chen ’08, a member of the Harvard branch of UAEM, explained in an interview afterward that while the connection between university licensing policies and drug affordability has not been widely discussed within the global health community, she was “astounded” by the eager responses from students, researchers...
...Jerry’s Moosetracks clutched in my aching hands while listening to Cher’s “Song for the Lonely” (on repeat). First thing you notice about a guy/girl: Are you 18? No? OK, then could I get you to sign this? Your best pick-up line: Hi! I’m Silas. Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: I never laid a hand on your daughter, sir. Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: Remember that time I told you I never touched your daughter? Well...