Keough's Web site is in Spanish, and the VC can't read a word.
"Marky was partial to a few drinkies, but he was a kind man with a big heart and never had a bad word to say about anyone, " a statement read.
He turned his book into a spoken-word project, and in 2005 he asked Jones to read a passage.
By using this search tool, one can access a news site without having to read any bad news, because every possible word and phrase that could be seen as a downer (think "cash-strapped, " "financial turmoil" or "unemployment") is blacked out.
He also gets a lot of sales form word of mouth, referrals and from people who read about his company somewhere else online or in a magazine.
At The News, it was a standing joke that the competing TV and radio stations read our stories word-for-word on air.
The neuroscience of literacy suggests that, sometimes, the best way to make sense of a difficult text is to read it in a difficult format, to force our brain to slow down and process each word.
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That lets you read the text in attachments like Word and Acrobat files and see pictures in grayscale, like a BlackBerry on steroids.
"The actual word shape was the most distinctive thing because if you had Birmingham in capitals, from a distance, it's difficult to read but in caps and lower case you have word shape, " says Calvert.
All she knows is that a few years ago word got around that there was money to be made pretending to read books that were in danger of falling off the bestseller lists.
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