The university later amended the course so that students would have an option not to read the book - although those who objected would have to write a paper on why they chose not to.
Unlike with other pen-enabled tablets, where you might see air pockets in between the screen layers, this actually comes close to matching what it feels like to write on paper.
And maybe there is only one thing as difficult as being an Egyptian censor before the revolution, or a secret policeman in any one of a dozen countries in the region now, and that is sitting in a foreign ministry in London or Washington or Paris and being asked to write a paper for tomorrow morning, with the title What Happens Next?
"I thought it was only fitting to put pen to paper and write them a fitting ode, " said the Rastafarian writer.
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Stiletto Escape gives you the pen and paper to write the adventures of your lifetime.
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Why would someone who successfully uses Quicken or Mint.com take a pencil to paper and write?
Klein is in no danger of running out of paper to write his appellate briefs, but it showed that Microsoft was ready to play hardball.
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After my conversation with Michele I put on my favorite music, let my mind wander sat down with pen and paper to write down my goals for next year.
The cap of this pen doubles as a stylus tip, giving users the option to write with ink on paper in the iNotebook device and then quickly switch over to writing with a stylus in the app.
Marano, an editor-at-large at Psychology Today, tells about a high school in Washington State that required students to write an eight-page paper and present a ten-minute oral report before graduating.
Players had to map out their progress in virtual worlds on sheets of graph paper, or write down lengthy passwords to save games.
The Republican leadership, Harned wrote in a memo, asked the coalition to "write the definitive piece of paper trashing all these bills" and launch a grass-roots effort against them.
Mr. Rood has given a peculiar explanation for why now, after 35 years of studied silence on the matter, he decided to write a lengthy column in his paper defending John Kerry.
Unable to understand him, his ex-wife who was caring for him at the time gave Tommy a pen and paper and asked him to write down what he meant.
Major European banks probably need a 500 billion euro transfusion to write down their debt holdings of weak sister paper from Spain, Italy and Greece.
Such displays usually take the form of a large, blank sheet of paper on which students are invited to write anything they like.
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The device continues to read out words and sentences, adding in the ability to trace letters and write them out on its special paper.
And if they need cash urgently, troubled companies are free to write cheques which they cannot cover and float commercial paper they are unable to redeem.
Silicon Valley was, so he persuaded the paper to send him to San Francisco to write about emerging technology.
In order to write using the slate and stylus a thick piece of paper is placed face down in the slate, the stylus is used to punch out dots in the paper.
And Livescribe has tried since 2007 to popularize its technology, which uses a pen with a tiny, built-in camera and special paper to record and wirelessly transmit text as you write.
While many doctors offices still write everything on paper, more and more are moving to digital, Kivatinos says.
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They're planning to write a book or manual about their method, and they presented a paper, titled "Autism Spectrum: Emotional Regulation through Clarinet Lessons, " at last year's Virginia Counselors Association convention.
In another recent paper, Dr. Eastwood and two colleagues set out to write the ultimate scientific definition of boredom, culling through decades of research papers to assemble a description of the phenomenon.
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Why not just write things on a blank piece of paper and affix a stamp to it?
"I write something on a piece of paper, then I tell it to someone and then they email it, " he says.
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Mr. KASSEM: He complained about the fact that his pen and paper had been confiscated, and he's not being allowed to write.
It tells how agents write their message using a Pentel Rollerball, then press it against a fresh piece of paper to transfer an invisible message.
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