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...TORTOISE AND THE HARE Though some brain functions tend to diminish with age, the loss may not always place older folks at a disadvantage. Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., asked a group of 256 subjects to observe a series of letters, flashed one at a time on a computer screen, and hit a target button whenever an A was followed by an X. Younger adults noticed early in the test that most A's were followed by an X, and became primed to hit the target button whenever they saw an A--which resulted in errors. Older...
...decision reached by the department does not diminish in any way the enormous respect and gratitude we have for the job Louise Richardson has done for the undergraduate program," said Williams Professor of History and Political Science Roderick MacFarquhar, who is also the government department's chair...
...this doesn't diminish Microsoft's grip on the Web. "We're not going to go out and buy magazines or other traditional content things," Gates told the WEF crowd. "Instead, I think there's room for a company whose main goal is to create software and allow that software to be a very empowering tool." By keeping its management energies narrowly focused on software, Microsoft could continue its dominance in the operating system and web software markets. In any case, Microsoft's management style, a delicate balance between top-heavy control of product content and maverick innovation...
...contradictory and exhausting character most of us hardly know. It is fashionable at this fin de siecle to use the man to tear down the hero, to expose human pathologies at the expense of larger-than-life achievements. No myth raking can rob Gandhi of his moral force or diminish the remarkable importance of this scrawny little man. For the 20th century--and surely for the ones to follow--it is the towering myth of the Mahatma that matters...
...says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "And with a rise in oil prices having boosted the Russian budget, even the IMF threat is unlikely to have much effect on Russia's plans." Western leaders are warning that not only will destroying the city and every living thing in it diminish Russia's international standing, but the march on Grozny may have created its own momentum. "Russian sources admit there's no military rationale for pressing ahead with an all-out assault on Grozny," says Meier. "From a strategic point of view, it makes more sense to simply lay siege...