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...advocacy have adopted the practice of using "person-first" language (not referring to people by their disability or capitalizing on sensational statements like "suffering"), the media consistently lag behind. We should not presume that a person with a particular disability "suffers"; in fact, she used a wheelchair as a tool in her daily life. I encourage Time to lead the way when reporting on people with disabilities or other special needs. Rachel Reynolds, GLEN ALLEN...
...their name engraved on it to someone's home to request a visit. But now that you can IM, e-mail or text pretty much anyone immediately, the Victorian practice seems laughably outmoded, right? Not so, according to a growing number of enthusiasts reviving the old-fashioned social-networking tool. "Is it technology fatigue? A colorful way of branding yourself? We're not sure," says Peter Hopkins of Crane & Co., where sales of the cards have doubled in the past two years. "But the demand is clear. They are our fastest-growing item...
...mean to be a total tool when I say: Knock it off already with this talk of a "movement." That's what Zuckerberg called Facebook throughout his hour-long presentation yesterday: A movement. As in, "Last year at F8, everyone here together at the San Francisco Design Center started a movement...
...only did I not think that, nobody else thought that. We didn?t know what we doing video-game wise because there weren?t any video games when we started 20 years ago. And it started as a computer game. And it was going to be part teaching tool, part computer game...
...instead of writing off the relatively new judicial and diplomatic tool of international justice, skeptics should heed the three important lessons that recent cases can teach. First, while international courts may be the ones that issue the initial indictments and arrest warrants, it is the local authorities themselves - as we have seen in Serbia, Chile and Liberia and will eventually see in Sudan - who need to be convinced that the benefits of ridding their societies of global villains exceed the costs. Second, that will is more likely to be created by concentrated regional action than by generic international pressure...