Word: associationism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like other Soviet youngsters who showed musical promise at an early age, she had no real childhood. "All I did," she recalls in her fluent but slightly askew English, "was practice like crazy mad." She spent her youth studying cello, composition and piano ("I love piano. I still play but...
CRACK THOSE BOOKS Just how good are those textbooks your kids bring home from school? Project 2061, a math-, science- and technology-education reform initiative of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, has just rated the most widely used middle school science textbooks. Not one got a satisfactory...
Papers and scientific journals are scattered on nearly every surface in the professor's office. And on one wall hangs the 1997 Newton Lacy Prize from the American Astronomical Society, one of the most prestigious awards the association offers.
TIME senior science editor Phil Elmer-DeWitt wonders about that - "I?d like to see them replicate this in a lab. I give a lot more credence to the brain cancer theory," he says - but that?s almost beside the point. Has a cigarette-style war over America?s favorite...
Need more convincing? Salaries of personal assistants usually fall between $50,000 and $80,000, but can swell beyond $100,000. Other perks often include medical insurance, paid vacation, free travel, a warm and temperate California climate and a front-row seat to how the wealthy live. Can't stand...