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...Take along someone whose support you can count on to take notes and serve as an extra set of ears. Also consider using a tape recorder so you'll have a record of the doctor's explanation and instructions, counsels Lipkin. Sometimes anxiety makes it hard to absorb information the first time around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advice: Can You Hear Me Now? | 8/18/2003 | See Source »

...We’ve just been really, really careful on all of our infrastructure and administrative costs,” Rapier said. “We’ve budgeted those to be at exactly the same levels as they were last year even though they have to absorb inflation. We’ve figured out ways to save money in other places so we can hold it completely flat from year to year...

Author: By Laura L. Krug and Stephen M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Officials Expect No Rise in Payout from Endowment | 8/8/2003 | See Source »

...schoolchildren. Yet the exact nature of the problem has eluded doctors, teachers, parents and dyslexics themselves since it was first described more than a century ago. Indeed, it is so hard for skilled readers to imagine what it's like not to be able to effortlessly absorb the printed word that they often suspect the real problem is laziness or obstinacy or a proud parent's inability to recognize that his or her child isn't that smart after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Science of Dyslexia | 7/28/2003 | See Source »

...course, Probst has seen his share of duds--such as Sims Online, a multiplayer version of the best-selling PC game of all time. Sims Online garnered a disappointing 82,000 subscribers worldwide. Still, Probst can absorb the blows. At 52, he has seen it all. He is famous for rarely smiling and comes across more like a stern high-school principal than the emperor of electronic fun. But he has been the boss for 12 years and understands how to foster a creative environment. Like Harry Potter's Hogwarts, EA is divided into competitive teams; each works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Electronic Arts: LARRY PROBST/Redwood City, Calif. | 7/28/2003 | See Source »

Harvard, on the other hand, can absorb the effects of the federal money changes, so that its students will not end up paying more to finance their educations...

Author: By Laura L. Krug, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fewer Aid Dollars Won't Hurt Harvard | 7/3/2003 | See Source »

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