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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Mercury News</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Cursive is, like, so last century</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">They can type 60 words per minute, text on cell phones in seconds and instant-message endlessly. What teens can't do well, it turns out, is write in old-fashioned cursive.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Ask about 40 high school students to write three sentences, and without exception the assignments come back in printing — neat or scrawled, but not in script.</P>
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