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...care centers, according to the study, are more likely to display better language skills and have better short-term memory. In an effort to keep half of America's workforce from running screaming from their offices, TIME.com asked two experts in early childhood development and education to help us interpret this study's findings. Steven Barnett, professor of education and director of the center for early childhood education at Rutgers University and Maurice Elias, a professor of psychology at Rutgers and the co-author of "Emotionally Intelligent Parenting," spoke with TIME.com Thursday...
...order to bring the U.S. fire brigade running. Even now, his strategy has been to allow and encourage Palestinian militants to fire rifles and mortars at Israelis, hoping to provoke them into heavy-handed responses that affect Palestinian civilians and draw international condemnation. Arafat may even interpret the Israeli withdrawal after a condemnation by Washington on Tuesday as vindication of that strategy...
...claim that the terms in which the news is presented are uneven, degrading to Arabs, not harsh enough for Israel's current hawkish leadership and representative of an implicit bias against Islam in the desire to paint the conflict as a religious war. They are certainly entitled to their interpretations. Yet to discern the world media's consistent and deliberate slander against Israel, one need not interpret terminology either way: It is evident simply in what the press chooses to report and to omit in its coverage of the conflict...
...standoff over the plane. President Bush used polite diplomatic language Monday despite his obvious frustration with China's slow response to U.S. requests, and the Navy ordered three of its destroyers to leave the region of Sunday's air crash, thus avoiding sending a signal that Beijing might interpret as hostile intent. Beijing's intentions are more difficult to gauge, given the fact that the Chinese leadership is far from monolithic. A fierce power struggle has raged for years between reformist modernizers and more hard-line hawks who fear that modernization is bringing dangerous social instability, the latter being inclined...
...interpret this as Napster getting religion right before the courts flip the switch on the electric chair." ROBERT SCHWARTZ, American lawyer, on the song-swapping company's pledge to block access to copyrighted music after an adverse legal ruling