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...book to be published next month makes clear, neurologists know very little about how the brain develops in the first few years of life. In The Myth of the First Three Years, John Bruer, president of the McDonnell Foundation, based in St. Louis, Mo., argues that much of the advice parents are getting about how to make their very young kids smarter and more talented is based on gross exaggerations of brain science. So, he says, is the notion, suggested by some advocacy groups, that brain development all but shuts down after age three. Too much focus on this...
...making the baby listen to foreign-language tapes or forcing him to look at works of great art is that this satisfies the parents' agenda, not necessarily the child's. "Babies are like little scientists," says Kuhl, who, along with two co-authors, presents her ideas in a book also coming out next month, The Scientist in the Crib. "They take in data, make hypotheses about the outside world and test them." This sort of learning goes on throughout life, but Kuhl argues convincingly that the process is most intense and wide ranging in the first few years...
...results, though not definitive, are intriguing enough so that several U.S. psychiatrists have started offering SAMe, both in addition to more conventional treatments and by itself. Rheumatologists have been more wary. "It does seem to offer pain relief," says Dr. William Arnold, who is chief medical editor of a book on alternative medicines that the Arthritis Foundation is publishing in October. "But the arthritis experiments were very uncontrolled." He's more impressed by another natural compound, glucosamine, which is the subject of a study being funded by the National Institutes of Health...
...MORRIS in New York. Morris was the editor of Harper's and had been a Rhodes scholar. I wrote to him shortly after I got my Rhodes, and to my surprise, he agreed to see me. He was wonderfully wry and funny--the classic Southerner. He wrote a great book about his dog. He wrote a fascinating book about the role of football in the South and the racial barriers, The Courting of Marcus Dupree. You know, most Southerners thought they'd be looked down upon if they went up to the Northeast. The cultural elites would all think they...
...know, for most of my generation of Southerners who went north, the book that stuck in their minds was [Thomas Wolfe's] You Can't Go Home Again. Willie's North Toward Home was a beautifully written, evocative portrait of one person's love for the South who had profound regret over the racial situation. It helped a lot of people like me who wanted to see the world and do well up north but also come home and live in the South. He showed us how we could love a place and want to change it at the same...