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...assistant Iain Jackson are challenging is the interpretation of a variety of classic experiments begun in the mid-1980s in which babies were shown physical events that appeared to violate such basic concepts as gravity, solidity and contiguity. In one such experiment, by University of Illinois psychologist Renée Baillargeon, a hinged wooden panel appeared to pass right through a box. Baillargeon and M.I.T.'s Elizabeth Spelke found that babies as young as 31/2 months would reliably look longer at the impossible event than at the normal one. Their conclusion: babies have enough built-in knowledge to recognize that something...
Donald K. Baillargeon of the Screen Actors' Guild, which represents 1,300 thespians in Boston, points to the city's unique terrain...
...special," Baillargeon says. "I mean, it's not as dramatic as San Francisco, but it's interesting...
...fact that Boston has so much old world architecture--especially in the Back Bay and Beacon Hill areas--would make it attractive to filmmakers," Baillargeon adds...
...klutz working as a temp, famished for experiences that will match her soaring fantasies. She takes photographs and records herself on videotape; she is her own and only pal, admirer and shrink. Polly (Sheila McCarthy) needs to find a heroine -- say, the supersoignee curator of an art gallery (Paule Baillargeon). Then she needs to feel betrayed by this designated goddess so she can finally locate her strengths...