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Ten Words from Today's NY Times - May 23, 2012
Ten Words from Today's NY Times - May 23, 2012
Learn Ten Words from Today's Times - May 23, 2012.
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Am I "different than" you? Or "different from " you? And does it matter?
"Different than is often considered inferior to different from," Garner's Modern American Usage says. We certainly don't want to be inferior. Continue reading...Observe Memorial Day this year by learning Memorial Day Vocabulary: Words to highlight our respect for the sacrifice our servicemen and women have made and are making.
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Discover the many ways the Challenge lets you know you're doing a great job.
As we announced last week, we've made some changes to our achievements and added new levels to spur you on as you play the Challenge. Today, we're going to give a quick achievements tour, to encourage you to keep a look out for them as you play.
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When news emerged that Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin was renouncing his American citizenship to avoid taxes related to Facebook's IPO, two senators reacted by proposing legislation that would go after the likes of Saverin. Senators Chuck Schumer and Bob Casey said it was time to "defriend" Saverin, and they announced a bill called the Expatriation Prevention by Abolishing Tax-Related Incentives for Offshore Tenancy Act, or the Ex-PATRIOT Act for short.
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Bob Greenman is an award-winning educator who spent 30 years in Brooklyn, New York teaching English and journalism at James Madison and Edward R. Murrow High Schools. Here he recalls how he he used objects encountered in everyday life as the inspiration for enjoyable and effective vocabulary instruction.
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The U.S. presidential election is six months away, but the Republican debates and primary contests have already gone on for more than a year. The long campaign has meant plenty of exposure to that special genre of language known as political speech.
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