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Willa H. Friedman ’05, who responded to Poage’s e-mail, said she thinks students have to be careful about the way they interpret the arrest...
Willa H. Friedman ’05, who responded to Poage’s e-mail, said she thinks students have to be careful about the way they interpret the arrest...
Much of what makes Boohbah work is the absence of narration, of words telling the little watchers how to interpret what they're seeing instead of letting them fill the void with their own thoughts and ideas. This is so counterintuitive to the adult mind, trained to expect a constant stream of lessons and morals and pep talks, that Wood keeps videotapes of kids raptly watching Boohbah and gleefully gabbling back at the screen to calm nervous TV executives. "It's so difficult for people to believe that if you leave words off the program, children will supply them...
...brain. It is based in part on a simple principle: brain cells that are active use more blood than quiescent brain parts in order to collect the oxygen they need to do their job. I had already invited Lucy Brown, a neuroscientist at the Albert Einstein school, to interpret the scanning results. But I had one concern about the design of the experiment. I knew that lovers have a hard time not thinking about their beloved. I was afraid that the lovers' passionate romantic thoughts, generated as they looked at the photo of a sweetheart, would carry over and contaminate...
...Guangzhou hospitals are the most experienced in the world at treating SARS. Guangzhou laboratories, however, are not up to the same standards, and that has led to suspected lab contamination as a possible cause for the positive tests that initially suggested this was a SARS case. Some Guangdong officials interpret as disrespectful the WHO's unwillingness to confirm their labs' findings. The WHO, which has no laboratories of its own and relies on collaborating institutions, has been unclear as to why it is delaying its diagnosis. It is, however, acting as if it is the only organization in the world...