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• SlateThe Tower of Babel story is a fanciful attempt to account for a very real question: What was the first language and why are there now so many of them?
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The Tower of Babel story is a fanciful attempt to account for a very real question: What was the first language and why are there now so many of them?
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published an updated version of its cell phone guide to protesters.
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Telephones and pagers not cutting it anymore
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