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Chocolate is a legendary aphrodisiac, but can it make you love a class? External factors, even something as small as a candy bar, can influence student responses on course evaluations, according to a study by two social psychologists. Students in one discussion section were offered chocolate before filling out teaching...
Welcome to the Care Rehabilitation Center, part of a three-year-old experiment to reform malleable minds who have fallen under the sway of Osama bin Laden's radical brand of Islam. To get here, jihadis have to demonstrate during a prison interview a readiness to rethink their extremist views...
All children have their own normal; they have not yet seen any worlds other than their own. Capecchi's world was an uncontrolled experiment in resilience. "I never felt sorry for myself," he recalls. "Children are remarkably adaptable. Put them in a situation, and they simply will do whatever it...
Of course the edge looks different to him, since he has lived on it. It's a cliché that strength comes from adversity. But clichés are often just hard truths tamed by familiarity. Maybe he triumphed in spite of his ordeals, not because of them. There is no control...
In addition to the considerable political risk in partnering with a charter member of the "axis of evil," there's the North's underwhelming track record when it comes to development schemes. Casting about for new investors after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the D.P.R.K. in the 1990s started...