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Phones Down!

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Suffolk Closeup

  • Publication: East Hampton Press
  • Published on: Apr 30, 2023
  • Columnist: Karl Grossman
So-called smartphones were not a problem for a teacher when I started out as a professor 45 years ago. The first cellphones, big and clunky, arrived in 1973, and the... more

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