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...brain. In infants and children, who grow increasingly coordinated as they mature, the bulk of that takes place in the motor and sensory lobes. If we acquire better reasoning skills in middle age, Bartzokis long suspected, it would follow that most of the myelin added in those years would appear around the signal-transmitting axons in the higher brain regions that are the seat of sophisticated thought. Essentially, the brain spends decades upgrading itself from a dial-up Internet to a high-speed version, not fully completing the job until...
...soil. Italy is the host. The Vatican is the parasite. Not only does the Catholic Church obtain substantial financial aid and tax exemptions, but it also arrogates to itself the right to interfere with the policies of the Italian government. Every day the Pope or some Cardinal appears on the TV news, and politicians queue to kneel before the Pope, thereby humiliating the state. If only some latter-day Henry VIII would appear on the scene and expel the Vatican. Alessandro Berrini Milan Exit Strategy The average American is simply sick of the U.S.'s spending our money...
...cover all their bases,” he said.Lea H. Broh ’08 said she supported any reason to learn languages.“Any initiative that gets people studying foreign languages is a good thing,” she said.Broh studies Spanish, which does not appear on NSEP’s list, but she also studies Portuguese, which does.“I’m not sure I like being under the auspices of national security as opposed to international understanding,” she said.Day reiterated Harvard’s focus on generalized support...
Everyone around the water cooler knows that meditation reduces stress. But with the aid of advanced brainscanning technology, researchers are beginning to show that meditation directly affects the function and structure of the brain, changing it in ways that appear to increase attention span, sharpen focus and improve memory...
...current software products to allow workers to stay on task for longer periods, even as onscreen interruptions arrive. In next-generation systems, which Microsoft's competitors are pursuing as well, interruptions are designed to be less intrusive--nothing flashes, pops up or makes a noise--and the alerts appear on the periphery of a screen that's larger than today's standards so that workers stay centered on their main task. The key, she says, is for an incoming message to provide just enough information for the worker to judge whether to grab it or ignore it until later...