Word: brightness
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...what Henri Matisse once called him, by which he surely meant himself, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Piet Mondrian and any of the other pioneers of modernism. Fernand Léger once told an interviewer about his "battle to quit Cézanne," as though he were a narcotic. "Then one bright day," Léger insisted, "I said, 'Zut!'" (See pictures of Cezanne...
...Tuscany. Borgo Tranquillo's owners have remade its buildings in an arrestingly Modernist style while still using the original, reconditioned stones and roof tiles. For rent are four apartments (from $940 a week) and a villa, each with a soaring interior accentuated by weathered beams, white walls offset with bright accents of color - lime green to tangerine - and witty statements like woven hammock chairs that hang from the ceiling. The furnishings are a clever mix of design pieces (the freestanding Ross Lovegrove Vitra baths in the bedrooms, for example) and treasures from Ariane and Frank's travels, such as silk...
...parents play a huge role in their kids' academic success. How does those conclusions fit into your own research? Adoption studies show that being raised in an intellectually rich environment can give a temporary boost to a child's intelligence and knowledge. The reason it's temporary is that bright children raised in less advantageous environments eventually catch up. But there's another factor here: subculture. A child raised in a subculture that values intellectual activities and takes schoolwork seriously has an advantage that doesn't go away. So even if the early achievement gap is due to deficiencies...
...sake of our country, Professor Mankiw should reevaluate some of his economic theories in the cold light of reality. As policy, his theories have led our country to economic calamity. Many neoconservatives are bright and certainly influential. Their ideas count. For the sake of our country, they should rethink their core economic beliefs and stop supporting the failed Bush economic policies...
...below the average of more than $25,000 for private colleges - Morris Brown is "the only chance" for many of its students to attend college. "When we left the meeting, knowing the circumstance that we were in, we went out and rallied on our own," she says. Holding bright orange and white poster boards with slogans like "Save Our School" and "Stop to Write a Check Here," students swarmed the streets outside the school, approaching drivers at every light. Some even boarded city buses, collecting donations in increments as small as 20 cents. Between the students' efforts...