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...activity over several years can be as powerful and can lead to cognitive changes.” Winner said that if it is proven that musical training improves cognition, the ways in which children are educated could be changed for the better. In the future, music may be an aid to teach other subject materials...
Though the Financial Aid Office anticipates an increase in the number of families who request additional assistance this year, Donahue said the office will receive student appeals for mid-year reconsideration of financial aid packages, as has been done in the past...
Because of poor planning and ill-prepared government agencies, the U.S. military has assumed the primary responsibility for humanitarian aid in Iraq and Afghanistan, several war veterans said at a panel in Cabot House yesterday...
...relatively easy way that he can put early points on the change board once in office is by issuing a series of Executive Orders - for instance, reversing Bush policies on stem-cell research, offshore drilling and the prohibition against using foreign-aid money for abortion counseling. Congress, with its stronger Democratic majorities in both houses, is likely to quickly pass legislation that previously died under a Bush veto, beginning with expanded funding for the children's health-insurance program that is administered by the states. And lawmakers may also begin passing parts of Obama's economic and energy plans piecemeal...
...Even for a notoriously repressive regime, the jail sentences were unusually harsh. Last year, the generals who control Burma, also known as Myanmar, violently crushed a peaceful, monk-led protest movement calling for economic and political reforms. Hopes that an influx of foreign aid - dispersed after Cyclone Nargis devastated the Irrawaddy Delta last spring - would convince the junta to take a softer approach were dashed by the rash of detentions that accelerated in late October. Last week, two journalists were jailed, while three lawyers representing political activists have also been sentenced to prison. "These last few weeks show a more...