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Norton's insights come from first-hand research. For the past six years, she has been regularly videotaping, from infancy, about 40 children born to young mothers living in the most blighted, impoverished pockets of Chicago. She lets her camera roll for up to four hours at a time, capturing the ordinary rhythms and interactions of a child's life at home. Reviewing thousands of hours of ) tapes, Norton found that references to time were rare. Most parents hardly ever provided instructions like "Finish lunch so you can see your favorite TV program at 1:30," or even sequential statements...
Comparable schools like Stanford and Duke actively promote foreign exchanges--which they consider vital to rounding out students--and use their overseas connections as recruiting draws. Harvard ought to move out of its out-dated isolationism and help students gain first-hand exposure to the world outside the (617) area code...
...First of all, the Kennedy family much more directly has ties to Massachusetts and New England," Roosevelt said. "And secondly, many more people are alive who have had first-hand experiences with John Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy...
According to Campbell, seeing the American arsenal first-hand gives students a much better appreciation of the weapons' power and destructive capacity...
Anderson has first-hand experience of this kind of attitude through her job at the front desk of the Le Pli Spa at Charles Square. "It's so funny how these people with all kinds of titles behind their name automatically think that I should give them extra-special treatment," Anderson says. "It's funny how they treat me until they find out I go to Harvard. To me, that's kind of bogus because I was the same person I was before they knew where I went. I'll be glad when I'm at a place where people...