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Study: A day of video games tops a year of therapy for dyslexic readers
Playing action video games could help dyslexic children read faster, a new study suggests. Neuroscientists from the University of Padua in Italy tested the reading ability of two groups of 10-year-olds after one group had played action video games and...
Tags: Science and Technology, Entertainment, Wii, Gaming
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Lifting a burden from special ed parents
The welcome lifting of the federal consent decree on Baltimore City Public Schools does not mean all is well for students with disabilities in Baltimore and Maryland — far from it. Yet, the General Assembly rarely pays any attention to the fact that...Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, Separation of Church and State, Environmental Issues, Montgomery County (Maryland), John Paul Stevens
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'A Haunted House' wears out its only joke ★
Marlon Wayans wrings every last down-and-dirty giggle out of a single joke in "A Haunted House," his return to "Scary Movie" territory, in truth if not by contract. He's no longer involved in that series, so he limited himself to making fun not of every...
Tags: Ghosts (supernatural entities), Unexplained Phenomena, Entertainment, Movies, Marlon Wayans
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Gavin Newsom says the revolution will be digitized
-------------------- Citizenville How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government Gavin Newsom with Lisa Dickey Penguin Press: 272 pp., $25.95 -------------------- California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom has a lot more time on his hands than...
Tags: YouTube, Al Jazeera (tv network), Peace Corps, FarmVille, Fidel Castro
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Local family urges lawmakers to consider dyslexia bill
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsKansas parents are pushing lawmakers to consider a bill that would help dyslexics and identify students struggling to read. The move comes the same day a new literacy report finds Kansas communities are not among the nation's best. Terry Sader,...Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice
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Arthur Ochs Sulzberger dies at 86; former New York Times publisher
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, the fourth publisher of the New York Times, who made history with his decision to publish the Pentagon Papers and revived the "Good Gray Lady" of print journalism with a radical redesign that set a new standard, has died. He was...
Tags: White House, U.S. Supreme Court, Richard Nixon, Entertainment Events, World War II (1939-1945)
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Joe Wright, Keira Knightley a fearless team on 'Anna Karenina'
Director Joe Wright's vision for the Leo Tolstoy classic "Anna Karenina" has been called "bold," "daring" and "ambitious" — words that could also be used to describe the effect the director and his leading lady, Keira Knightley, have on each other....
Tags: Still (movie), Joe Wright, Keira Knightley, Woody Allen, Entertainment Events
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Patti Smith indulges her affection for traveling, Baltimore
Patti Smith has a soft spot for Baltimore, dating back to the early '80s, when she and her husband would visit the city for soft-shell crabs and beer. These days, she "hardly ever" gets to play in Charm City, so when her current tour gave her a day off...
Tags: Poetry, Edgar Allan Poe, Amy Winehouse, Trips and Vacations, Travel
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Who Are They? Stories About The Victims Of Friday's Shootings
Killed in Friday's horrific shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School were 20 children, ages 6 and 7, and six adults. The shooter's mother was also killed Friday. Stories of the adult heroes of this tragedy and tributes to the children who lost their...
Tags: French Toast, Southern Connecticut State University, Katie Couric, Entertainment Events, Christianity
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A Documentary Explores the Peculiar Visual Fictions of Photographer Gregory Crewdson
Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters Starts Nov. 30, Real Art Ways, 56 Arbor St., Hartford, (860) 232-1006, realartways.org. The art photographer Gregory Crewdson makes some of the most elaborate and expensive-to-produce pictures in the world....
Tags: Fine Artists, Real Art Ways, Movies, Entertainment, Documentary (genre)
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The hope of music's healing powers
Yes, yes, it hath charms to soothe a savage breast (or beast, if you prefer to repeat a common mistake). But researchers are finding that music may be an effective balm for many other afflictions: the isolation of conditions such as autism and Alzheimer's...Tags: John Travolta, Nursing, Physical Conditions, Stroke, Medical Specialization
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Philanthropy comes full circle for Harford County women
In its second year awarding grants, the Women's Giving Circle of Harford County gave 11 nonprofit organizations nearly $36,000 in 2012 to help women and girls in the county. Four thousand dollars went to the local Arc chapter to help single parents; $2,...
Tags: Charity, Habitat for Humanity International, Harford County, Family, Health and Safety at School
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