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...puberty. Some theorists concluded from this that the idea of adolescence was an artificial construct, a phenomenon invented in the post-Industrial Revolution years. Giedd's scanning studies proved what every parent of a teenager knows: not only is the brain of the adolescent far from mature, but both gray and white matter undergo extensive structural changes well past puberty. "When we started," says Giedd, "we thought we'd follow kids until about 18 or 20. If we had to pick a number now, we'd probably...
...Whatever the New York Times once was, it is today not by any standard a journalistic organization.' STEVE SCHMIDT, spokesman for John McCain, accusing the Gray Lady of being "150% in the tank" for McCain's Democratic presidential rival, Barack Obama...
...surveys the economy: "It's not the time for fear or panic." Image is a very real part of the presidency, and it seems safe to say now, nearly two years into this campaign, that President Obama would do well should times call for unruffled calm. He wore a gray suit that fit like a mother's caress, nary a wrinkle or bead of sweat visible, and spoke in the same laconic tone you might use to discuss the weather with a co-worker while sorting your e-mail at the same time. He met the press in Clearwater...
...cell phone before the individual fled the area. HUPD officers responded to a call placed by the victims. Neither student was injured during the incident. They described the assailant as a heavy-set white male in his thirties with slight facial stubble. He was wearing a dark gray hooded sweatshirt. This incident marks the third violent crime to occur near the University in the last two weeks, though none have occurred on University property. A male graduate student was the victim of an unarmed robbery in Cambridge Common on Sept. 10. He was attacked by a group of teenagers after...
...geometric shapes and two-dimensionality, but manages to take one step further in creating the illusion of jutting out toward the viewer, approaching three-dimensionality. Charles Sheeler’s “Upper Deck” again follows the blueprint of clean shapes and echoes the white and gray squares of Mondrian’s piece, but it presents them through painted industrial and mechanical objects that are depicted as fully three-dimensional. Finally, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy’s “Light Prop for an Electric Stage (Light-Space Modulator),” a machine made...