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...Especially on the top floor?where the treasures include pieces from before the rise of Buddhism in 6th century B.C. through the 18th century Edo period?the exhibitions benefit tremendously from the museum's emphasis on selective presentation. Many rooms feature only a handful of pieces, encouraging visitors to take a closer look instead of a flyby glance at 30 works in 30 seconds. "Our approach is for art appreciation, not mass exhibitionism," explains curator Yuji Dainobu...
When you're a kid, it's better to be tall than short, right? Not necessarily, according to a study in the journal Pediatrics. Researchers asked nearly 1,000 6th-to 12th-graders in western New York to list their friends, rate the likability of their classmates and pick out peers with particular characteristics, such as "is a good leader." Respondents graded very short teens--those about six inches shorter than average--as being just as well adjusted, well liked, disliked or bullied as their taller peers...
McCormick is analyzing Roman skulls with a team at the medical school to identify the cause of the great 6th- century plague which, according to some, precipitated the fall of the Roman Empire in the West...
...plan to profit off these courses explains another mystery from the review: What professor would ever agree to teach a course whose syllabus resembles a badly designed 6th-grade social studies class (as with the report’s example “cultures and contacts” course which will miraculously scamper through “multiple centuries and continents” by covering “significant moments…in which civilizations interacted in cooperative or competitive ways”—in a semester)? The answer is not too hard to guess when that professor...
This year, Hendricks experienced a rocky start on the mound. Against Texas Tech on March 6th, he was pummeled for 11 hits and 8 earned runs before being lifted in the second inning. But the right-hander rebounded to pick up a win and a save—both coming against Michigan—on the team’s second road trip, looking like the ace he expects...