It doesn't, however, call up conventional web pages, but content which is specially composed for a telephone: sound clips, numbers, music, spoken texts.

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Brands like Cookoo, Martian and Pebble let you read your email, monitor texts, play music and take your pulse on your wrist.

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The iWatch is speculated to be able to provide alert messages such as texts, emails or incoming calls, be a music player, provide medical information such as heart rate, and utilize GPS such as running routes.

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It's laser-focused on giving you access to email, texts and other means of communication, as opposed to music, movies and games.

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Many Jewish immigrant kids had had European musical training, and first generation Jewish-American children were often encouraged to study music, whether at home with a piano or in the synagogue, where texts were routinely meant to be sung.

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This year's recipients include the Shakespeare Remix program in New York, where inner-city teens adapt and perform Shakespearean texts to reflect their own lives, and the Harmony Project in Los Angeles, which provides free music instruction to at-risk children.

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Examiners will struggle too, to produce a single test that measures the same level of ability in children of different ages. (In music tests all candidates for a given grade play the same pieces: in an English test, quite different reading texts and writing topics would suit an eight-year-old than an 11-year-old.) The changes might even have the perverse effect of making children sit more tests.

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