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...teaching, than in the six- or eight-child family, in which the eldest sibs have to pitch in more. Since the Norwegian IQ study rests on the tutoring effect, those findings may be open to question. "The good birth-order studies will control for family size," says Bo Cleveland, associate professor of human development and family studies at Penn State University. "Sometimes that makes the birth-order effect go away; sometimes it doesn...
...time the students are well-equipped to disagree with me, which they often do.13.FM: If you could enroll in any class this semester, besides your own, what would it be?MJS: [Literature and Arts B-51,] “First Nights.”14.FM: Who was your favorite Cleveland Indians right fielder during the 1997-2000 seasons?MJS: Manny Ramirez, obviously. Coming from Minnesota, I began life as a Twins fans in the days of Harmon Killebrew and Tony Oliva. But my loyalties have long since shifted to the Red Sox.15.FM: We were looking for David Justice, but that?...
...downturn in sunny San Diego that poses the far bigger risk to the U.S. economy. Detroit, Cleveland and some smaller Rust Belt cities are experiencing a traditional bust, in which economic woes spread to housing. In San Diego, the housing decline seems to be a self-generated phenomenon, the product of too-high prices and too-crazy lending practices. Now the "housing market is dragging down the rest of the economy," says Alan Gin, an economist at the University of San Diego. The same is true in and around Los Angeles, San Francisco, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Miami, Washington, New York...
...harmony with the environment. The result is the ecovillage, and EVI is hardly the only one of its kind. The Global Ecovillage Network lists 379 such groups, from EVI in Ithaca to Findhorn in the wilderness of Scotland, and there are even some in cities like Los Angeles and Cleveland...
...Cleveland Clinic is one of 250 places in the U.S. that perform DBS for Parkinson's, and worldwide, close to 40,000 people have undergone the procedure. But the operation is by no means a cure. For one thing, it doesn't do much for end-stage Parkinson's symptoms like cripplingly bad posture and difficulty swallowing. More important, Parkinson's is a degenerative condition, which means that while DBS neutralizes tremors, the brain continues to deteriorate beneath the mask of the treatment. After a decade or so, electrical stimulation is not enough to contain the disease. Still, that...