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...bodies behave. In the brain this can be especially powerful. Any significant experience triggers changes in brain genes that produce proteins - those necessary to help memories form, for example. But, says the study's lead author, Ian Maze, a doctoral student at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, "when you give an animal a single dose of cocaine, you start to have genes aberrantly turn on and off in a strange pattern that we are still trying to figure...
...which the formulation of a drug for infants can differ from that for an older child: the infant's version can actually be stronger since it is often administered in tiny amounts with a medicine dropper. "We've done studies here that show that 50% of the time, parents give the wrong dose" to a child, says Dr. Benard Dreyer, a professor of pediatrics at New York University. "We recommend parents don't use spoons...
...article - things like the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) and the Collegiate Learning Assessment. NSSE [pronounced Nessie] is a measure of teaching quality and student learning. The Collegiate Learning Assessment is a test of critical thinking, analytic reasoning and communication skills that is content nonspecific. You can give it to an engineering major and you can give it to an English major and learn the same thing. Hundreds of colleges and universities administer these surveys and tests to their students, but most of them don't publish the data. They keep it to themselves...
...political asylum. "There is no way he will return to Tehran. If he goes back, it will undoubtedly mean imprisonment and torture," Saki says. According to the Swedish newspaper Sydsvenskan, Heydari will take a couple of days to figure out his plans, and during that time he will not give any interviews. The Norwegian Foreign Ministry said Thursday that it had yet to be contacted in the case. (See pictures of terror in Tehran...
...Lasantha Wickrematunge investigation has progressed, but also where all the investigation into the assassinations, assaults and intimidation of journalists have progressed," says Lakshman Gunasekera, president of the national chapter of the media-rights group South Asia Free Media Association (SAFMA). "The manner the investigation has moved does not give any reason to feel safe. Things have improved, but most certainly I would not advise those in exile to return just...