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Like so many disconcerted 11th-graders, Atkinson had been driven round the bend by analogies--which are, not coincidentally, banished from the New SAT. But some academics are now offering an elegy for the analogy: "Analogical thinking is at the very foundation of how we make use of old knowledge to understand new things," says Lohman. "It may take a long time to understand how our solar system is set up, but if someone could use that information to help you understand the structure of an atom, it speeds the process up...When we learn, we have to do this...
Winger has never been known for making conventional career choices. After starring in Terms of Endearment, An Officer and a Gentleman and Shadowlands, Winger has spent the better part of a decade in a self-imposed exile from the movie industry, refusing to bend to the pressures of Tinseltown. And now Winger has taken on a crusade to rescue Breathing for a Living—the posthumously-published memoir of her goddaughter Laura Rothenberg, who died of cystic fibrosis in March at the age of 23—from oblivion...
...Kick the can down the road. The biggest economic deal for President George W. Bush was to get China to bend on its currency, the Yuan. China wouldn't budge - why should it, given how much of the U.S. debt it is financing? The answer: form a U.S.-Chinese panel to study the issue. Don't count on much to happen, despite a few rhetorical signs of flexibility from the Chinese...
...when my friend asked for my help, I was more than a little concerned. But I recalled enough of the basic tackle tenets—bend with the knees, ‘club’ the person’s thighs, drive forward with the shoulder and legs—that things went well. Before long, she knocked the wind out of me. Felt like old times...
...their very own Sheryl Crow in training. The new HandBand ($90) from KGI Consumer Products offers a cheap alternative. Using nothing more than a high-tech pair of gloves and a portable, wireless receiver, it lets kids play virtual guitar, keyboards or drums at less than earsplitting volume. Each bend of the finger produces a different note; you switch instruments with the push of a button. It's a great idea, but the execution needs work. The sound that emerges from the grapefruit-size speaker is passable but a bit synthetic. And the finger contortions required to play the HandBand...