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...have currencies strengthening against the dollar face the prospect that their exports would become pricier in world markets, a situation policymakers wish to avoid as their economies are just now crawling out of recession. China, one of the world's largest holders of dollars, doesn't appear likely to allow its currency, the renminbi, to significantly appreciate against the dollar any time soon, despite increasing political pressure from Washington to do so. China's Commerce Minister, Chen Deming, said at the recent Canton Trade Fair, a major showcase for China's manufacturers, that the "basic stability" of the yuan exchange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is the Dollar Dying a Slow Death? | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

...course emphasizes studying art in order to understand how the human mind construes it and what assumptions must be made about the visual system to allow the brain to create such art, according to Caramazza...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Neurobiology Looks To Shed Light On Vision, Art | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

...film down, and attempts—unsuccessfully—to identify his mother among the groups of prisoners. It is the muteness of these historical documents—the disparity between their silence and the horror which they record—that induces psychological torpor in Austerlitz, and allow us, as readers, to comprehend the meaning of his trauma...

Author: By Grace E. Jackson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Haunting Magnum Opus | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

...ranking began as a way to measure the quality of higher education in China,” Reimers said. According to Reimers, China’s efforts to improve education are part of the country’s greater push to allow more people to benefit from the country’s economic progress...

Author: By Damilare K Sonoiki, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Takes First In International Ranking | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

...very phenomena or processes instinctive to a five-year old child that are key to how that child learns has been driven out of our institutions,” says Edwards. “We need to create sandboxes in our institutions that allow us to be children again in the sense that we are encouraged to move from one corner of the sandbox and not have to justify why we go from one corner to another...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Art and Science: A Work in Progress | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

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