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...Harvard?” he asks, lounging in flip-flops, faded jeans and a gray sweater which elongate his thin frame. “Have you published yet? You better,” he says. “If you don’t go out and cure cancer, you’re fucked.” Jenkins then went on to imitate the H-bomb dropping awkwardness. “I have to acknowledge that I’m better than you because you didn’t get in. That?...
...colonial legislature and the political academy of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. In their rough-and-ready way, the Jamestown settlers had planted the seeds of a dynamic system, democratic capitalism, along with an institution that would pervert it, chattel slavery, and a force that would supply the cure, the goal of liberty...
...actors little to work with. Instead of achieving characters of depth and complexity, Kasdan’s characters are nothing more than stereotypical.The lines he created for Ryan and Stewart are stilted and, at times, even laughable. After Ryan asks Stewart to take Brody to a movie to cure his loneliness, Stewart replies, “That is so lame. That is, like, the definition of lame.” Does Kasdan know anything about living, breathing teenage girls, or has he just read excerpts from “The Baby-sitter’s Club?...
...writers’ meetings, write an article here and there, and then turn my focus to something else. I soon realized that a being a sports addict on Crimson Sports is like going to an AA meeting with an open bar.With no patch or 12-step program to cure me, I was left to try to reconcile my borderline religious sports zeal with the notion that a Harvard man should be passionate about something more significant in the grand scheme of things.And to tell you the truth, it wasn’t that hard.On a personal level, sports have provided...
This means that scientists can, in effect, switch off a person's grasp of numbers. It's fascinating, both because it reduces a serious learning disability to the mere flick of a neural switch and because, by doing so, it holds out a tantalizing possibility that one day a cure may be as simple as flicking that switch in reverse. Cohen Kadosh hopes the result will allow scientists to develop a diagnostic tool for dyscalculia based on neuroimaging. Identifying children with developmental dyscalculia would let parents intervene earlier to teach important math concepts, just as they can intervene today...