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...stuck in a pond in the San Francisco Zoo, it's not easy to swim to South America. That, however, is what a flock of 52 penguins appears to have been trying to do since Christmas Eve, and zookeepers admit they have no idea how to get them to stop...
After affirmative action was outlawed in Texas, the University of Texas system adopted a plan to admit the top 10 percent of students from each high school. This policy has almost brought enrollment at UT-Austin back to previous levels, but it has not had nearly the same success at Texas A&M or at UT-Dallas, and at UT-Austin minority enrollment still is not proportionate to minorities’ overall representation in the student population...
...mother. She asked Fran to lend her money. Fran, now sober, suggested that her daughter move in with her in Houston. They fought at first, but with the help of a psychotherapist, they slowly began rebuilding their rocky relationship. "I had to examine my own behavior and admit the mistakes that I made along the way," Fran says. "I'm very careful not to do anything that would remind Ginger of the past and the tough times...
...psychoanalysis compete with that? Freud's methods may be intellectually exciting, but they're slow and largely unproven. A course of cognitive therapy can take as little as six to eight sessions to finish; a course of analysis often takes five to 10 years. Even its supporters admit there are few clinical studies to show that psychoanalysis actually works. After all, they argue, the ultimate goal of psychoanalysis is deeper self-understanding, and how can you demonstrate that with a study...
Researchers seeking to answer those questions come up against a confounding mess of variables--everything from changing hormone levels to a patient's willingness to admit that a problem exists. But last summer a researcher at Stanford University tried to wave away some of the fog. Turhan Canli showed nearly 100 photographs--some of emotionally neutral objects like a fire hydrant, others of emotionally unsettling things like a severed hand--to 12 men and 12 women. Three weeks later he showed the subjects the same images and found that the women were 15% more likely to have accurately remembered...