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...Dimitri Christakis, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington in Seattle, whose studies were the first to dispute the claim that educational DVDs improve babies' language skills, noted the importance of Richert's findings in advancing our understanding of how babies learn - or, in this case, don't learn - language. "The novel thing here is that this is actually the first experiment in the real world using these products to robustly test their claims," he says...
HUPD spokesman Steven G. Catalano said that he could not comment on the status of the case because the incident was a medical call...
...Chile quake provides all the more reason to demand that, in return for billions of dollars in aid, Haiti must agree to terms that will force it to improve its abysmal governance. "The Chilean example will encourage donors to make the case that this is an opportunity to do things differently in Haiti - and do them right for a change," says Michael Shifter, vice president at the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington...
...fair, Haiti has had far less experience with earthquakes, and therefore earthquake preparedness, than Chile has. (Before Jan. 12, the last major quake to hit Port-au-Prince was in 1751.) There will, of course, be the apologists who insist it's unfair to compare a basket case like Haiti, the western hemisphere's poorest country, with a showcase like Chile, which has Latin America's highest per capita GDP and is set to become the first South American member of the exclusive, Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Chile can do things right, Haiti defenders argue...
...shore less than 20 minutes after the first quake shock.) "It would have been virtually impossible to mobilize quickly enough to get out of harm's way," Lubchenco says - especially at 3:30 a.m., when the quake hit. "They didn't have the benefit of early warning in this case." (See the 10 deadliest earthquakes...