Watching TV delays infant language, but don't touch that dial . . .

[Beverly Flanigan]

Just a technical question:  Lately Dennis's mailings (and some others too)
come to me with =20, =92, etc., as below.  Why is this, and what can I do
to get them "clean"?

At 12:21 AM 8/15/2007, you wrote:
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>Subject:      Watching TV delays infant language, but don't touch that
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>There's a new post on the Web of Language:
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>Watching TV delays infant language, but don't touch that dial . . .
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>Parents regularly tell children that watching television will rot =20
>their brains, and now there=92s proof.  According to Frederick =20
>Zimmerman and his team of researchers at the University of =20
>Washington, watching television =96 whether it=92s "American Idol" or =20=
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>"Sesame Street" =96 actually shrinks babies=92 vocabulary by up to six =
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>eight words per hour.  The study, published in the August, 2007, =20
>issue of the Journal of Pediatrics, found that "each hour per day of =20
>viewing baby DVDs/videos was associated with a 16.99-point decrement" =20=
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>in cognitive development compared with babies who did not watch TV.
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>Even if they were plopped down in front of so-called educational DVDs =20=
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>like Baby Einstein or not-for-profit children=92s programming like =20
>"Blue=92s Clues," TV-viewing babies were falling behind their peers who =20=
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>preferred traditional children=92s literature like "Pat the Bunny."  =20
>Babies who had never heard of Shakespeare, Mozart or Monet (all =20
>available from Baby Einstein) were actually outpacing TV-addicted =20
>babies in learning to talk...
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>find out more on this, and other stories of language in the news, on =20
>the Web of Language
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>Dennis Baron
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