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...much-touted Maxwell-Dworkin lab, named after the mothers of donors William H. Gates III, Class of 1977 and Steven A. Ballmer '77, is almost complete and will house faculty members in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Not only is the building architecturally tasteful--combining polished wood-panels with sleek ergonomic workstations--but it couldn't have come at a better time...
While Americans have flocked to the flicks in record numbers this summer, movie theaters are breaking ground at an even greater pace. Over the past five years the number of screens in the U.S. has soared 40%, to almost 35,000, according to the National Association of Theatre Owners. And since every town with an economic-development plan sees the movies as some kind of retail miracle, the number may reach 40,000 before the building spree ends. Yet no matter how many geeks go to see a Star Wars film 17 times, it's doubtful they can fill...
...thing has become clear to scientists: memory is absolutely crucial to our consciousness. Says Janellen Huttenlocher, a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago: "There's almost nothing you do, from perception to thinking, that doesn't draw continuously on your memory...
...shavings on the floor, eats, eliminates, sleeps. But put the animal through its paces in a testing lab, and it quickly becomes evident that this mouse is anything but ordinary. One after another, it knocks off a variety of tasks designed to test a rodent's mental capacities--and almost invariably learns more quickly, remembers what it learns for a longer time and adapts to changes in its environment more flexibly than a normal mouse...
...case against him was paper thin--flimsy circumstantial evidence and the dubious testimony of a jailhouse snitch who claimed Fritz confessed while awaiting trial. Was that really all it took to send a man away for life? "When the jury came back with a guilty verdict, I almost went into shock," says Fritz...