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Like most scientific studies, the Science paper highlights what researchers don't yet know: the interplay of genes, dopamine and the process of learning is still mostly a mystery, and researchers are hesitant to guess how this particular genotype really affects any given individual - or that having it would even be a bad thing. "Under certain circumstances it might be positive [for a person] to ignore negative feedback and to persevere," says Ullsperger. Soldiering on in the face of setbacks, after all, is a key ingredient for success. In the end, these new findings may well be one of many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How We Learn from Our Mistakes | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

...guess I was lucky.' MUTTIAH MURALITHARAN, Sri Lankan spin bowler, on bowling out English batsman Paul Collingwood. The feat took place during a match in Muralitharan's hometown of Kandy, making the bowler the greatest wicket taker in Test cricket, with Collingwood his 709th victim

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

...guess it was not really so much what they were for, but how they approached things, in terms of how they are as people,” Weiss said...

Author: By Lindsay P. Tanne, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Candidates Give Face Time to ‘On Harvard Time’ | 12/5/2007 | See Source »

Mitchell isn’t the only quirky personality in the Square. “Most people who own used bookstores are unemployable in the [conventional] sense, either eccentrics or anarchists or just loose cannons of sorts,” Petrovato said. “I guess I would be an anarchist. I don’t like to work for anybody.” But Raven Books has no political affiliation: “I have a lot of books that I don’t agree with politically, but these books need to be read...

Author: By Ana P. Gantman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bookstores Galore | 12/5/2007 | See Source »

...going to go ahead and just be honest and say that I’ve never heard of that country.” 2. What’s the deepest lake in the world? Tony D. Qian ’08: “This would just be a guess...maybe the Dead Sea. That’s a guess, it’s probably wrong.” 3. Can you spell appoggiatura, the 2005 Scripps National Spelling Bee’s winning word? Rocksheng Zhong...

Author: By Emma R. Coleman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: P.B.K. IQ | 12/5/2007 | See Source »

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