Word: hear
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...trouble discerning where one mellifluous word ended and the next began. So he decided to exercise his auditory skills in much the same way a bodybuilder might zero in on a particular muscle group. His weapon of choice: Posit Science's Brain Fitness software, which promised to hone his hearing, as well as his memory, for $395. (Yes, you heard that right: $395.) After completing the program's 40 hour-long sessions, he's a believer. "Now I can distinguish the words and hear better," says Marquis. "It's not cheap, but I never felt, Oh, man, I wasted...
...conservative, says Kathleen Moore, professor of religious studies at University of California at Santa Barbara. "While they are struggling internally to be tolerant of each other's viewpoints about religion, they are also struggling outward to negotiate rights with the broader American society," she says. "From their voices, you hear that the face veil is something that shouldn't be practiced because it can be associated with extremism." (Read "Will France Impose a Ban on the Burqa...
What It Says: We want you, you want us. When upperclassmen ask you which box you're going to check on the response form, tell them you’ve accepted and will be a student in the fall. No one wants to hear you rattle off the Ivies you’re debating over, so humor us. It will make us happy, and we won't know if you’re lying anyway...
...worst of the spell - was in the 2% to 5% range, not great but hardly catastrophic. But elsewhere around the state, farmers haven't been so lucky. According to Florida Agriculture Department spokesman Terence McElroy, a full assessment won't be known for days or weeks, but "we hear anecdotally that there has been substantial losses in tropical fish, significant damage to the fern industry, and citrus - especially in the northern counties - has sustained damage." The same is true, he says, in South Florida for vegetables like tomatoes and peppers. "Will it be 10%? Twenty percent? Forty percent? We just...
...Hear Bill Clinton, UN Special Envoy to Haiti, talk about the earthquake...