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When teens tried to complain in phone calls to parents, the calls were cut off, according to several students interviewed by TIME. Even with good behavior, students say, they were permitted only one monitored, 10-min. phone call every other week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Oregon School for Troubled Teens Is Under Scrutiny | 4/17/2009 | See Source »

...performed the exercise more than 250 times. When she failed to show sufficient enthusiasm, Maisa says, she and her peers were punished, each having to repeat their own humiliating skit. When Maisa tried to tell her mother about it on the phone, she says, a staff member terminated the call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Oregon School for Troubled Teens Is Under Scrutiny | 4/17/2009 | See Source »

...Social emotions call up so much about your own episodic memory - self and space and time," says co-author Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, an assistant professor of educational psychology at USC. "When all of those things are activated together, your memories, your plans for the future, it kind of converges at this center part of the brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Admiration Rooted in the Brain | 4/17/2009 | See Source »

...programs on his chopping block include the Air Force's $350 million-a-copy F-22 Fighter, the Army's $160 billion Future Combat Systems - a network of ground and air vehicles - and the Navy's DDG 1000 Destroyer. To prevail, Gates is employing what those in uniform call TTPs - tactics, techniques and procedures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gates' Battle Plan for the Defense Budget | 4/17/2009 | See Source »

Palin, Gov. Sarah • Alaska Legislature soundly rejects choice of for state attorney general • denial by of calling for Sen. Mark Begich to resign so Ted Stevens could be re-elected after e-mailing "I absolutely agree" in response to Alaska Republican Party chairman's call for Begich to step down • description of by former supporter of as "a clownish, vindictive amateur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 4/17/2009 | See Source »

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