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...conceptualize a virtual reality theater to help people with communications disorders (i.e., stuttering problems, high-functioning autism, recovering from strokes, etc.). Case Western has always been an advocate of what Williams calls the "sage on the stage versus the guide on the side" learning method, in which students gain their own knowledge through "routine, everyday activities and/or challenges" with intermittent guidance from a teacher, she says. "Star Trek is that situated learning paradigm at its prime," says Williams, referring to the way that the holodeck was used for education and simulation (like "when they wanted to go to war with...
...legions of rich Europeans are suddenly closing their Swiss accounts and moving their money to Singapore. After Switzerland implemented the withholding tax, "very little happened in terms of asset migration," says Sebastian Dovey, managing partner of Scorpio Partnership, a London-based consultancy to the wealth-management industry. "The big gain for Singapore is not to take assets away from Europe," he says. "The big gain is to attract assets from within its own region. And [Singapore] is doing that tremendously." For now, though, it still has a long way to go before it can claim to be a wealth-management...
...history," the presidential candidates are the most visible targets. Many Brazilians feel they simply aren't being given a choice. There are seven candidates in the field but only two, Lula and Alckmin, have a serious chance at winning, although a third far-left candidate is starting to gain ground. Alckmin embodies the neo-liberal PSDB rejected by voters in 2002 and Lula, the odds-on favorite, is leading only because he has given large handouts to the country's poor. Even many of his supporters say they will vote for their erstwhile great hope with a heavy heart. "There...
...deaths off Lampedusa by calling on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to live up to agreements to tighten patrols along his country's coastline. Many believe Gaddafi cynically uses the threat of "opening the spigot" on the droves of sub-Saharan Africans gathering on Libyan shorelines in order to gain concessions on outstanding diplomatic questions, including Italian reparations for past colonial injustices. Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo P?rez Rubalcaba is traveling today to Senegal and Mauritania to meet with authorities and discuss measures to control the outflow. Vice-president Mar?a Teresa Fern?ndez de la Vega will visit Finland on Wednesday to discuss...
...regions have performed, it's no wonder. The iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index exchange-traded fund (ETF), which tracks a basket of stocks from such countries as Taiwan, South Africa, Turkey and Poland, is up 89% over the past two years. That trounces the S&P 500's 18% gain. A dip in stocks worldwide this spring shook emerging markets the hardest--India dropped 29%, Egypt 37%--but even that falloff didn't dampen the enthusiasm more than temporarily. According to AMG Data Services, money moved into emerging-market mutual funds and ETFs at the rate of $3 billion...