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...caucuses, but it sure feels like the 2008 presidential-election season has reached full swing. There are at least 20 actual or assumed or wished-for candidates--nine Democrats and 11 Republicans--a field that narrowed by one when John Kerry dropped out on Wednesday. Most of them have begun raising money, hiring staff and lining up endorsements. The past couple of weeks alone have brought announcements by three Senators--Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on the Democratic side, Sam Brownback on the Republican--and one Governor, Democrat Bill Richardson of New Mexico. In the crowd there...
...Human rights activists say that systematic police brutality is part of the Egyptian security apparatus, and has been on the rise. Torture became widespread in the early 1990s, but was focused on Islamist militants and their families. More recently, though, non-political detainees have also begun to report being tortured as police seek to extract confessions in criminal cases. Activists were enraged last week when an Interior ministry official in an interview to the daily Masri El Youm newspaper blamed independent media for exaggerating torture issues admitting that "the percentage of torture in Egypt over the past few months...
...most Harvard students, intersession has already begun: their remaining responsibilities include planning vacations and gloating to unlucky roommates with dreaded Monday and Tuesday exams. But a fortunate few have been laughing for some time now—students who, through a combination of term papers and December exams, have gone through January fully final-free. Thanks to serendipitous scheduling last winter, Amy C. Stebbins ’07, a History and Literature concentrator, finished all five of her courses without sitting for a single final exam, ending up with perhaps the longest intersession of any student. The combination...
What Sirois and his postgraduate 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...
...with a powerful new probe into the biological roots of the human psyche and prompted them to take a fresh look at old questions. Indeed, says Parma's Gallese, that's what makes the research so exciting--it's still in an early phase, and the fun has just begun...