Far from undermining our ability to communicate, teenage text message shorthand represents a "linguistic renaissance", say researchers. E-mail and mobile phones have bred a whole lexicon of abbreviations, truncated words and acronyms that can be used to

IAAB's third annual Iranian-American Camp for rising high school sophomores to graduating high school seniors, is being held June 22-28, 2008 at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Far from being simply a camp of leisure and recreation, Camp Ayandeh cr

Richard Dawkins's profile has morphed in recent years: from the most lucid science writer of our time, the man who makes his readers feel smarter than they really are, to the Chief Pastor of World Atheism Inc. Despite the astonishing sales of The God Del

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