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Researchers conducted four tests on five-year-old preschool children, according to co-author Elizabeth S. Spelke, who is Berkman Professor of Psychology. In one test studying comparison abilities, subjects were shown an array of blue dots on a laptop screen, Spelke wrote in an e-mail. The blue dots were obscured, and then a cluster of red dots appeared. The children were asked if there were more blue or red dots...
...start looking ahead to what the Crimson is working with now—which is quite a bit. Liam O’Hagan’s scrambling ability will be measured against that of his predecessor, but he’s going to do that independent of any comparison you may draw. Bobby Everett is watching in the stands, but the defensive line is hard-hitting, the young secondary energetic and aggressive. Clifton Dawson is still here, remember...
...midway through an election campaign. That's why, a few hours earlier, Clark put on a hair net and white coat for a tour of a biscuit factory on the city's southern fringe. The net, accompanied by a faint scowl, made Clark seem severe; the hard hat, by comparison, gives her a jolly air. But through all the costume changes dictated by her image makers, Clark's reputation as a decisive and intelligent leader is holding firm. The P.M. may not always be loved, but she is respected - and there's little doubt about what she stands...
...Florida, by comparison, emergency officials across the state are linked by a system of satellite telephones, and the lines of authority between local and state officials are sharp. And in Texas, ham operators have a place at the table in the emergency bunker in Austin along with the high-tech communications experts...
...destruction of the five abortion clinics in the city. The proof was a radar photograph showing that the hurricane "looks like a fetus facing to the left (west) in the womb, in the early weeks of gestation." A photo of a 6-week fetus was helpfully provided for comparison. At the other end of the political spectrum, environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was blaming the hurricane on ... Haley Barbour, the Governor of Mississippi, who played a "central role ... derailing the Kyoto Protocol" on global warming. Kennedy's larger point was defensible-global warming may well cause extreme weather patterns...