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Reading While Eating for March 12: Innovative Ideas

Monday’s links include genius inventions — like brunch and an iPad game for cats.

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The Number-One Way to Get a Flight Attendant Angry

Pull an Alec Baldwin.

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Auto-Correct Error in Text Message Leads to School Lockdown

A high-school student accidentally shut his school down and blamed auto-correct and a wrong number for the mishap.

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Pennsylvania Middle School Bans Ugg Boots

It wasn’t simply a style decision — students were apparently hiding cell phones in the “open top boots.”

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Wednesday Words: Romney-Boating, Weird Diseases and More

NewsFeed’s weekly highlight of our vocabulary includes useful, new, hilarious and surprising words (as well as some that are just fun to roll off the old tongue).

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iPads in the Cockpit, But Not in the Cabin? The In-Flight Gadget Controversy Continues

The airline policy that bans the use of electronic devices on planes is 30 years old, but there’s little to show that gadgets are actually a hazard on the nation’s 32,000 daily flights.

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At One Washington Theater, Texting and Tweeting Are Welcome

Fire up your phone, the curtain’s going up.

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Reading While Eating for October 4: About Time

Tuesday’s links talk evolution, second chances and the importance of pausing.

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Report: Evidence Mounts that Electronic Interference May Affect Airplane Safety

In 75 instances between 2003 and 2009, electronic interference was cited as a possible cause of airplane dysfunction, according to a report by the International Air Transport Association (IATA).

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The Littlest Smuggler: Girl Tries to Bring 74 Phones Into Colombian Prison

Colombia’s newest smuggler: An 11 year-old girl.