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I had dreamt of becoming a journalist from the time I was 17 — I had even written to the editors of a couple of newspapers asking them if they would be interested in hiring a schoolboy — but when I ...

New research from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) suggests that handwriting practice refines fine-tuned motor skills and creates a perceptual-motor experience that appears to help adults learn ...

ONE of the most interesting papers read during the last session of the Institution of Electrical Engineers was that by Mr. Donald Murray on setting type by telegraph. Strictly speaking, the title of ...

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