Most e-mailers and text-messagers do not consult etiquette coaches, though, and with the demise of words-on-paper letters, the future of "Dear" appears dire.
Email has decreased the mailing of paper letters, but online purchases have increased package shipping, forcing the Postal Service to adjust to customers' new habits.
That is a question addressed by Isabelle Dean and Michael Siva-Jothy of Sheffield University, in Britain, in a paper in Biology Letters.
Chris Landers, 21, an English major and co-editor-in-chief of the college's newspaper, the Oberlin Review, said the paper has welcomed letters to the editor and has asked people to contact the staff with any incident reports to encourage dialogue from all groups on campus.
The team of Professor Keon Jae Lee from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, KAIST has developed a high performance flexible all-solid-state battery, an essential energy source for flexible displays (see paper in Nano Letters: "Bendable Inorganic Thin-Film Battery for Fully Flexible Electronic Systems").
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Or so says David Eichler, lead author of a forthcoming Astrophysical Journal Letters paper positing that a sun-grazing comet roughly the size of Hale-Bopp (with a nucleus some 30 kms in diameter), could trigger cosmic ray-generating shockwaves large enough to initiate a global electromagnetic Armageddon.
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The reason "Dear" may be destined to die is that it faces a dilemma much like an army confronted with a pincers movement in war: On the one flank, written-on-paper, mailed letters -- the kind that have always been started with "Dear" -- are rapidly disappearing, as use of the U.S. mail itself dwindles.
Amid their appeals for support, the paper printed updates and letters from the public on its front page.
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Tucker says she still occasionally writes letters on paper to post to her grandson in Denver and visits whenever she and her husband can.
At precisely the same time, two University of Melbourne scientists published a paper in Geophysical Research letters, studying virtually the same data and finding little significant change.
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As recently as 50 years ago, the whitetip may have once outnumbered all the other big fish in the gulf, according to a paper published in Ecology Letters.
Unlike the one-way communication of paper surveys and written letters, elderly patients have turned to social media because they want to enter into a meaningful dialogue with their local services.
The planet was spotted last April but details have only just been revealed in a paper submitted to Astrophysical Journal Letters.
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But unlike dark energy, there are several ideas about what it might be, and one of them is the subject of a second paper, in Physical Review Letters, by Peter Biermann of the University of Bonn, in Germany, and Alexander Kusenko, of the University of California, Los Angeles.
In a paper just published in Physical Review Letters, Guenther Walther, a mathematician at Stanford University in California, shows that the observation that the number of neutrinos detected decreases when sunspots are plentiful is no more than an error in counting.
In a new paper published last week in Physical Review Letters, researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute have published a method that allows for much more stable quantum entanglement, which may help pave the way for better quantum communication and quantum computing.
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He smiles when white letters and circles appear on the paper.
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According to a recent paper by Francis and Vavrus in Geophysical Research Letters, the preferential warming of the Arctic, with a concomitant decline in late-summer sea ice, results in a more meandering jet stream, which is why Sandy shifted westward, rather than being shoved out to sea by the normally strong westerlies associated with the jet.
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If you really must keep one credit card in your wallet, wrap a piece of red paper around it and write in big, bold letters EMERGENCY.
The device continues to read out words and sentences, adding in the ability to trace letters and write them out on its special paper.
The career development center had paper job listings in binders and then students would prepare cover letters and resumes and mail them to companies.
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Letter by letter, his ink-stained fingers hand-set type, ink the raised letters with a hand-roller, then crank heavyweight paper through an old-fashioned letterpress.
On our desks, we had the essential supplies of the time: a bag of cookies, a pile of letters, an electric typewriter, a bottle of Liquid Paper and a roll of toilet paper.
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The letters to Obama, Wicker and Holland were all on yellow paper.
The three letters all contained "the same verbiage, font, style and paper color, " it says.
He did this simply so that the paper might be credited to Alpher, Bethe, Gamow, close enough to the first three letters of the Greek alphabet.
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The paper was just three pages long, and it introduced what would arguably become the most famous string of letters and numbers in the world.
The paper, authored by Jordan, Fisher and Perets, will appear in an upcoming issue of the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
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