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...think she so successfully captured the public imagination? It's not particularly common for a fossil to become a household name. I think she's captured the public's attention for a number of reasons. One, she's fairly complete. If you remove the hand bones and foot bones, she's 40% complete, so one actually gets an image of an individual, of a person. It's not just like looking at a jaw with some teeth. People can envision a little three-and-a-half foot tall female walking around. Also, I must say, her name is one that...
...initial analysis, Schmidt found that babies who spent more time in front of the TV performed worse on language and motor-skill tests at age 3 than those who watched less. But once Schmidt and her team controlled for other factors - the mother's educational status and household income - the relationship between TV-viewing and cognitive development disappeared. That means that TV-viewing alone did not appear to influence babies' brain development; a parent's education and finances mattered more. "Initially it looked like TV-viewing was associated with cognitive development," says Schmidt, "but in fact TV-viewing...
...we’ve read “Jack and the Bean Stalk”.JW: Our daughter is reading “Harry Potter” and “The Railway Children” by E. Nesbit.3. FM: What is a typical dinner discussion like in your household? Do you discuss work, or recent literature?CM: Much of the discussion at the dinner table last night was about how our daughter had pajama day. The level is not necessarily so high.4. FM: Does the writer-critic pairing inform your professional work? CM: It’s easy...
...Vanity media is like having this little yellow lab in the household. 'What about me? Aren't you going to update me?' How are you going to compete with that...
...That toxic debt was also behind the other bad company news of the day, when HSBC - Europe's largest bank - said it would seek $17.1 billion in new capital, and close its U.S. consumer-lending unit, Household Finance. The American affiliate had saddled HBSC with $16.3 billion in subprime-rooted losses, and explained the group's 62% dip in 2008 profits of $9.3 billion. But closing the troubled unit means adding its 6,100 employees to the list of 3 million American jobs eliminated since November...