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Instead of watching hours of Barney, the study’s author suggests reading, singing, and stacking blocks with your child, all of which help brain development. Once they get older, you can move them up to Jenga (Okay, Jenga is not actually part of the study...
...researchers said was a significant improvement over previous models, which only predicted risk with 50 percent accuracy. Originally used for artificial intelligence, the Bayesian network was used to screen 1,313 genes in 569 individuals and turned up 37 that worked collectively to forecast a cardioembolic stroke. Lead author and Medical School Associate Professor Marco F. Ramoni said he first explored predicting stroke risk after observing a high rate of strokes in a 2005 sickle-cell anemia study he conducted. That began a collaboration with Karen L. Furie, Mass. General’s director of stroke service, who was instrumental...
...W.E.B. Du Bois’ “Human Rights for All Minorities”; countries from Iran to Hungary to Africa were represented, and all were accompanied by an appropriate musical interlude.Lastly, the honored guest of the evening was introduced: Toni Morrison, the Nobel and Pulitzer prize-winning author who “refuses to tell the story simply in black and white” Bhaba said and who “offers this country the opportunity for truth and reconciliation.” In a soft and almost timid voice, Morrison read from her most recent novel...
...center of this strategy, as its linchpin, is the President, who has positioned himself not as the author of the new health plan, but as its mediator, facilitator and, if needed, as the taskmaster who intends to keep everyone on track. In his recently proposed budget, and on the campaign trail, Obama proposed the vague outline of a policy solution, including nearly $630 billion in new spending on health care in the short term, which would be coupled with long term cuts in the growth of medical costs. But he told leaders Thursday afternoon that he is not wedded even...
...Parents must be aware that although the study does not show evidence of harm, there are some indications that TV viewing at high levels can put children at risk of obesity, sleep problems, and attention problems,” said Marie E. Schmidt, the study’s lead author...