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...human brain in its early years is to make sense of mathematical principles from objects found in the natural world," says Jane M. Healy, an educational psychologist and author of Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children's Mind--and What We Can Do About It. This philosophy--championed most famously by the Swiss developmental psychologist Jean Piaget--explains the near ubiquity of counting rods and beads, known in academic circles as manipulatives, in most grade-school classrooms. As kids approach adolescence, however, they may be ready for slightly more abstract methods of learning, and computers may offer just...
...like jigsaw puzzles. For example, Michigan had a larger than average decrease in median income, yet had fewer people below the poverty line. Frank Stafford, a University of Michigan economist, explains that workers in that state's high-tech sector took a disproportionately serious hit. That would tend to affect those in middle-income brackets more than low-income workers...
...hand guiding all that the White House has done to prepare the country for war. For months Democrats have suspected that Rove, President Bush's chief strategist, was manipulating the war on terror to Republicans' political advantage. In August, when Democratic operative Jim Jordan was asked how war might affect the November elections, he replied caustically, "You mean when General Rove calls in the air strikes in October?" And when majority leader Tom Daschle erupted on the Senate floor last week, accusing the Bush White House of politicizing the national-security debate, he fingered Rove as a principal culprit...
...Even though we were up a player, I think we just ran out of gas,” Nechtem said. “It’s been a long weekend and the injuries started to affect us also. Not having Lobach hurt us a lot too. He brings a lot to our team and we missed him in more ways than...
...such as having grade point averages calculated to three decimal places. Yet, by so doing, he rightly acknowledges that decisions about priorities while at college can only be made by individual students and suggests that all he can ever do is “affect behavior at the edges.” Which, sadly, will be far from enough to rectify the problem...