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...team from State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, wanted to look at whether the ability to learn is affected by changes in brain chemistry that occur at puberty. They devised a task that was relatively complex (at least for a mouse) and required learning how to avoid a moving platform that delivered a very mild shock. (See the top 10 animal stories...
...work of environmental protection has become more institutional and less personal. But Wayburn fought his battles hard and never made an enemy if he could avoid it. He proved that you can get bigger things done if you lead with vision, not rancor...
...draft of a paper was pretty extreme because that’s the same punishment someone would have gotten if they had bought a paper online and used it for their final paper,” says the junior, who asked to remain anonymous in order to avoid the stigma associated with being forced to withdraw...
...pedophile priests," says Andrew Madden, who was abused as an altar boy and is a member of the victims group One in Four. "[The Church's actions] weren't just down to errors of judgment. This was a proactive covering up of the sexual abuse of children to avoid scandal for the church. Pope Benedict completely failed to own up to this...
...just like under communism," said Dana Okolicanyova, a 12-year-old protester, knowingly shaking her head despite having been born eight years after the communist regime fell in 1989. She says she plans to skip the first period of school on Mondays in order to avoid listening to the anthem...