Word: giftedness
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For those who want to understand the course of contemporary Europe, the primary material is almost too copious and familiar; it takes a gifted historian to shape it into something fresh and coherent without sacrificing the details. A new book, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, by New York...
For Masaki Endoh, designing houses is like "giving a present to people who want to make changes in their lives." Particularly people who have been consigned to live in the cramped quarters that are typical of Japanese homes. "But that's the reason we make such an effort to create...
“He’s exceptionally gifted athletically,” Cusworth says. “He could jump over me if he wanted to.”
Born in Taiwan, Ho was raised by a mother who shamed her family by taking a job as an insurance agent while Ho's father attended school. Hauling Ho and her brother on a moped to make sales calls, Ho's mother became the top agent-but quit her career...
Some experts say our education system, with its strong emphasis on testing and rigid separation of students into different levels of ability, also bears blame for the disappearance of drive in some kids. "These programs shut down the motivation of all kids who aren't considered gifted and talented. [They...