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...almost since she began her career. During graduate school at Cornell in the 1970s, Spelke answered a long-standing question about what babies perceive by looking at “simple, naturally occurring behavior.” Using two television screens and a stereo, she proved that babies could connect their senses and tell that a person who was talking was the same as the person at whom they were looking...
...winning players? Imagine drawing a map of who owns whom in Italy. You might start with Company A and find that it is 15% owned by Company B and 10% owned by Company C, both of which in turn are partially owned by Company D. And so on. Connect enough of the points, and you'll find that most roads lead not to Rome but to Turin's Fiat, or the Agnelli family...
...financial planner who came to Britain when he was eight. "While we support the police to a certain extent, they haven't managed to get their image right among the youth." He has no white clients, nor, he says, do his friends in other professions. He is sitting in Connect Telecom, a busy mobile-phone store run by his sons, where some whites, but mostly a procession of young men of Pakistani descent with slick haircuts and fancy sports clothes, buy phone cards, ogle the newest models and shoot the breeze in broad Yorkshire accents. He accuses one of rioting...
...Bandstand" was just a show that happened to originate nine miles from my house. I didn't connect particularly with the dancers or with the icky-pop Philadelphia style (Avalon, Fabian, Bobby Rydell) that got so much play from Clark. In those days my rock 'n roll delivery system was radio. And by luck, I was listening at a crucial time for two important media. For television, the mid-'50s marked the movement from reliance on regional production centers (like Philadelphia) to consolidation of the entertainment apparatus in Los Angeles and the news divisions in New York; that separation continues...
...agree: With the tax cut now law and almost no chance of passing further rate reductions, the President doesn?t have many tools to goose the general well-being or even rhetorically help ease peoples? fears about the downturn. Talking about trade in positive, pro-domestic terms lets him connect with their pockets to at least show that he?s not out of touch...