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...success in replicating her results. But her work received widespread media attention and gave rise to a pop-psychology trend known as the "Mozart effect." Dozens of Mozart compilation CDs that promise to enhance intelligence are now on the market, with titles such as Mozart for Mommies and Daddies - Jumpstart Your Newborn's IQ. The claims have had social-policy repercussions: in 1998, the U.S. state of Georgia began handing out classical-music CDs to the parents of all infants, and there are similar but less official programs in Colorado, Florida and elsewhere...
...Seeking Future Redemption: The person is only doing this to jumpstart his/her career. After three years, he/she will work for a teary-eyed NGO to aid the starving children of Kirblakastan (and world peace, of course...
...College has recently seen nearly unprecedented efforts on the part of the administration to jumpstart and facilitate social life on campus...
...seeks to jumpstart his own career as a graphic novelist, Stevens seems well-positioned to portray this phase of a young person’s life, imbuing it with an air of reality and truth. Although Stevens says that “Guilty” is not an autobiographical work, it feels as though the events that unfold in this book could have happened, even if they never actually did. While this makes for a story where less happens, it gives the work a subtle, textural quality of wordless image and emotion that slows the narrative, forcing the reader...
...We’re a young and inexperienced team, so we wanted to get a jumpstart on the season,” Johnson said...