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...them directly and uses language in a repetitive, reinforcing way - where, for instance, an adult and the infant interact with each other and with a new object, as they learn its name. By contrast, a video that provides multiple and different stimulating sounds, but in a passive, one-way flow of information - perhaps overstimulating the brain to the point of paralysis - may fail to engage babies in learning. (This is why nonnative speakers of a language, even if they are fluent, find it difficult to reproduce the same sounds of a native speaker, because they were not trained to hear...
...proving its prowess than on collateral damage to the hostages. In contrast, just months earlier the American embassy had assisted in the release of American aid worker Melissa Himes by sternly warning Cambodia that any state attack on the area in which Himes was being held would jeopardize the flow of U.S. aid money, allowing negotiations between her NGO and the Khmer Rouge to continue. (Read "A Brief History of the Khmer Rouge...
...Colombians tend to vote for a candidate and not their party. So who will the die-hard Uribe fans gravitate toward? "They are a block of ice that hasn't wanted to move. But with Uribe gone, it will melt, and the question is: To whom will the waters flow?" says Alvaro Forero, a political scientist and newspaper columnist...
Gopinath earned masters degrees in economics from the Delhi School of Economics and the University of Washington. She then completed her Ph.D. from Princeton University, writing her doctoral thesis on international capital flow and real interest rates in developing countries. After receiving her Ph.D., she taught at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago, before joining Harvard University...
...salaries are higher. Over the years, however, this has engendered tremendous loyalty to the firm--the average tenure for drivers is 16 years. UPS will try to reward some of that loyalty by restoring raises to about 40,000 managers and unfreezing 401(k) matching. Citing strong free cash flow, it will also up its dividend. "We're not hiring yet, but we hope to be soon," Davis says. In other words, recovery is en route...