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...Thursday afternoon, and the aisles at the new Wal-Mart in Shanghai are about as packed as they can get. The food sections are jammed, as are electronics and household goods. Most of the products that fill Wu Jingqing's shopping cart are made in China. But not all of them. In the DVD and CD sections, Wu looks for a children's movie for her 6-year-old. This is the real thing she's buying?a DVD of Beauty and the Beast priced at $1.85 that is absolutely, positively not one of the pirated versions for which China...
...relationship between stimulation and performance forms a bell curve: a little stimulation--whether it's coffee or a blaring soundtrack--can boost performance, but too much is stressful and causes a fall-off. In addition, the brain needs rest and recovery time to consolidate thoughts and memories. Teenagers who fill every quiet moment with a phone call or some kind of e-stimulation may not be getting that needed reprieve. Habitual multitasking may condition their brain to an overexcited state, making it difficult to focus even when they want to. "People lose the skill and the will to maintain concentration...
...three years, members of the Harvard women’s hockey team’s Class of 2006 played integral parts on units that reached the NCAA finals. This season, the trio—Carrie Schroyer, Jennifer Raimondi, and Ali Boe—has risen to fill leadership positions, serving as the squad’s captain, its best offensive player, and its best defensive player, respectively. Friday night, all three wrapped up their college careers, turning in typically solid performances in a 3-1 loss to top-seeded New Hampshire in the national quarterfinals. Raimondi assisted on the team?...
Part of that might be due to the specialized nature of their music, which, while bright, energetic, and melodic, doesn’t so much fill the room as linger in the corner. The diners at Tommy Doyle’s treat it like any other background music. One middle-aged couple watches from the bar with great enjoyment, but they are already familiar with this music and are simply waiting for their daughter—a banjo player—to arrive...
...absence of buzzer beaters, Dick Vitale (seriously, who’s missing him?), and bracket busters, fill out your bracket, but don’t lament our near-annual diss from the Big Dance...