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...point to "never again, as long as I am Speaker, make a speech without commenting" on the Monica mess and to start calling a crime a crime. Gingrich lieutenant majority whip Tom DeLay set up a Monica war room, the first place for the press to call to confirm when Monica delivered that fateful piece of pizza to the Oval Office or the date the fed-up Secret Service agent kept her waiting at the gate in sweltering heat until she looked "like she went a couple of rounds with Muhammad Ali." It was Gingrich who orchestrated the early stages...
...rumors to embed themselves in his biography: that he was a career KGB officer; that his father's name was Finkelstein or Kirschenblatt; that his current family name is actually a pseudonym, taken to mask his Jewish roots. The stories are plausible but unprovable. The one man who could confirm or deny them, Primakov himself, refuses to comment. As a longtime colleague puts it, you inquire about his private life at your own risk...
TIME strives for its share of scoops, taking news tips wherever we might find them--and working through many other sources to confirm them and add context. Most weeks I am happy with the results, although we also have some scalps on our belt (this summer's infamous Tailwind story immediately comes to mind) that I wish weren't there. But along with the scoops and the stories of the week, we have devoted substantial resources to special reports that take you behind the headlines so you can understand how our society really works...
...budding geniuses, but nobody made these kids better students--they were born that way. Each one is self-motivated and can obviously grasp any task at hand. Each could have been left in a box with a book and would have ended up self-taught. You did, however, confirm my belief that most teachers are only capable of imparting information to ready-made A and B students. Of course, there are a few good teachers, but they cannot overcome the inept system we have. After nine years of watching my dyslexic son feel dumber and dumber, I am taking...
...results confirm a number of other studies made ?- but essentially ignored -- over the past 30 years, which saw the same growth occur in the same area of the brain in rats and birds. The hippocampus is our learning and memory center -? and in adult birds, it grew every time they learned new songs. Could lifelong education literally boost your brainpower? "We have to try to determine whether we might be able to have some positive control over how the human brain cells divide," said Dr. Fred Gage, the team leader. Not to mention whether this could help arrest the neurological...