Word: control
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...have shown dramatic changes throughout the teenage years as excess gray matter is pruned from the prefrontal cortex - the seat of higher-order thinking and making judgments (like not smoking weed right before your chemistry exam). Meanwhile, behavioral studies have shown what every parent already knows: teens have poor control over impulses and a tendency toward risk taking. Still, relatively little is known about how such changes affect learning or what happens at a biochemical level in the brain as teens go through their addled adolescence...
...current wave of migration from the global South into the industrialized states is due to the failure of the IMF and the G-8's policies. The current global trading system is under exclusive control of the rich states, which doubtlessly want to keep it that way. Without the prospect of escaping poverty in their home countries any time soon, more and more people will decide to migrate north. The solution to the problem is not more rigid border policing, but a change of policy in the U.S. and Europe toward an equal global trading system that benefits all instead...
...book, which begins with a Buddhist’s perspective on weight control, is written in a language that is accessible to those who may not be familiar with the religion...
...We’ve talked a lot about being in your ideal performance phase,” Rhoads said. “Having an actual result is pretty far removed from the things that we can control. I’m really more looking at our controllable factors, and the results take care of themselves…the score just ends up being a byproduct of those things...
...Grim stories like these have been showing up in the Russian press with increasing regularity in the past two weeks, prompting prosecutors in Moscow to go into damage-control mode. In a statement released March 17, the prosecutor general's office said it had already forced private contractors in Sochi to shell out 1.2 million rubles (about $40,000) in back pay. But Pechorin says he hasn't seen any of the back pay yet, and neither have any of the workers he knows...