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"Insurance companies and food manufacturers may value safety, and easy-to-process names would appeal to their consumers more," says Song. "Adventure-travel packages and risky sports such as bungee jumping might want to use harder names." When a product like the Scirocco folds, it might have been done in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Would You Buy Xylitol? Why Some Names Scare Us | 2/24/2009 | See Source »

Research now suggests that much of the achievement gap in the U.S. is in place before children even reach kindergarten, suggesting parents play a huge role in their kids' academic success. How does those conclusions fit into your own research? Adoption studies show that being raised in an intellectually rich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Parents (Still) Don't Matter | 2/24/2009 | See Source »

Once peers form personalities, can those effects be reversed? For instance, if a child changes friends or classmates or teachers, how much will his personality evolve with those shifts? I wouldn't say that personalities are formed by peers. I would say that experiences with peers are one of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Parents (Still) Don't Matter | 2/24/2009 | See Source »

His support of less government regulation led to the collapse of Enron, the Madoff scandal, the housing crisis, the credit crisis, a deteriorating environment, global warming, and other ills. Managed capitalism can be wonderful, but if we allow the greedy to do whatever they want, we will again face sweatshops...

Author: By Thomas J. Donahue | Title: More of the Same Neocons | 2/24/2009 | See Source »

It is 7:30 p.m. on a Thursday night, and the threat of encroaching deadlines and hard-fisted professors has forced most students back to the safety of their dorm rooms and library study carrels. However, at the Let’s Go office, located within the Harvard Student Agencies...

Author: By Stephanie M. Woo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ready, Set, Let's Go | 2/24/2009 | See Source »

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