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what we’re reading
and occasionally watching too. Frontline reports on how the Internet is changing 
childhood in the first generation to grow up with the Internet – the entire program is available online. Elsewhere, Anne Trubek, a college professor, freelance writer, and parent writes on the increasing irrelevancy of handwriting. “Boys and girls, it’s time to put down your pencils.” And from The Washington Post, Eli Saslow’s story on Pittsburgh’s 28-year old mayor – the youngest in modern US history. (Photo from pghgov.com.)
what we’re reading
The Super Ad Bowl | The New York Times
The New York Times highlights SuperBowl commercials from 1984 to 2007, analyzing everything from the number of ads that used humor (72% last year versus 36% in 1984) to the types of companies they were for. After the game, YouTube will present all of this year’s ads for viewers to vote on, that is, if you even survive the game. Suzanne Staline at the Wall Street Journal reports on the relationship between sports and heart attacks – during the 2006 World Cup, German man had heart attacks or cardiac arrhythmia 3.26 as frequently on days that Germany played.
Chewable Ice | The Wall Street Journal
The Journal’s famous page-one A-heds range “from the silly to the serious, and from the quirky to the downright bizarre.” We’re not quite sure where Wednesday’s article on chewable ice as “snacks” selling like “hot cakes” and compulsive ice eaters fits.
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