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...have a clear grasp of the issue, all I've heard is heated, hyperbolic rhetoric from both sides," respondent Marcus L. Wang '04 said...
...outgoing President Neil L. Rudenstine recently told campaign members that it would take his successor a year or two to get “acclimated” to the issue. Apparently it will take one of the nation’s foremost economics minds at least a year to grasp the basics of a relatively straightforward proposal...
...what if?” hours later, and I started to wonder if the assessment that 21 is the “end of the road” had any validity. With the minutes ticking rapidly by, had my golden days already begun to escape my grasp...
...discovering the joys of poking through back alleys and neighborhoods, prowling palace lawns and windswept heaths to gain an appreciation for the history and tradition of the great city. The tour de force of the walks is the guides, many of them academics or thespians with an intimate grasp of London's history. How better to capture the pulse of Shakespeare's day than to trek down narrow, cobblestone streets with a literary historian who can bring the raunchy splendor of those times to life...
...When it comes to other skills, such as math or music, there is virtually no evidence for learning windows at all. Children grasp things at different rates, and parents whose child can read by age 3 may thus conclude that they somehow threaded the teaching needle perfectly, introducing letters and words at just the right time. But the reality is often that they simply got lucky and had a kid who took a shine early on to a particular skill. "People took the notion of a critical period and misunderstood it to apply to all learning," says Dr. Sparrow...