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Throughout our lives, fresh layers of myelin sheathing are laid down in the brain. In infants and children, who grow increasingly coordinated as they mature, the bulk of that takes place in the motor and sensory lobes. If we acquire better reasoning skills in middle age, Bartzokis long suspected, it would follow that most of the myelin added in those years would appear around the signal-transmitting axons in the higher brain regions that are the seat of sophisticated thought. Essentially, the brain spends decades upgrading itself from a dial-up Internet to a high-speed version, not fully completing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Staying Sharp: The Surprising Power of the Aging Brain | 1/13/2006 | See Source »

...renovated area, according to Kennedy, will be equipped with wireless internet service and various work stations that will allow for teleconferencing and phone banking. Once completed, the space will provide a “fresh opportunity to allow for more information [technology] infrastructure than was allowed in the current basement space,” Kennedy said...

Author: By Ying Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Revised Hilles Plans Revealed | 1/13/2006 | See Source »

...nauseating name change. This may seem trivial, but “The Wrap” was an iconic Harvard Square restaurant, and its new incarnation as BoLoCo facilitated by pricey consultants will force me never to enter its doors again. “The Wrap” screamed fresh, healthy food. “BoLoCo” sounds like a Mexican bathroom cleaning product.4. Arrogant sports fans. It’s uncool to talk about SATs. We’re embarrassed to even say where we go to school when asked, instead trying for “oh, a school...

Author: By John Hastrup, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Year in Shame | 1/10/2006 | See Source »

...summer work and career paths. We will work to get libertarians involved in more of the political activities at the Institute of Politics, an organization traditionally dominated entirely by the two major Democrat and Republican student groups. The Harvard College Libertarian Forum promises to provide Harvard students with a fresh look at—and a fresh escape from—politics as we know it.Alexander N. Harris ’08 is a social studies concentrator in Winthrop House. He is the president of the Harvard College Libertarian Forum...

Author: By Alexander N. Harris, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Libertarian Option | 1/10/2006 | See Source »

Kadima's first priority is to keep its Likud and Labor recruits from drifting back to home base. Labor managers are eager to grasp what they see as a fresh opportunity to boost their flagging leader, trade unionist Amir Peretz, whose lack of experience in diplomacy and security issues pushed middle-of-the-roaders toward Sharon. The man who hopes to profit most from Sharon's tragedy, however, is his archrival, Benjamin Netanyahu, the onetime Prime Minister whose tenure was marked by relentless opposition to any territorial trade-aways. Left running a rump party populated by the far right that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Troubled Soil | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

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