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Last week, the Dean of Yale College Donald Kagan decided to take a one-year leave after he made some particularly controversial remarks about his comrades in the humanities. Of course, Kagan couldn't flee to just any old center for advanced study. He is heading west to Stanford's Center for Advanced Study as well...
...still small; neither of the local news channels now in operation is turning a profit. But industry observers contend that these channels fill a need, and will eventually attract plenty of viewers and provide a lucrative advertising niche. "News is the most expensive programming," says media analyst Paul Kagan. "But for a cable system, it is a big traffic builder." So those traffic reports will come in handy...
...Work like Kagan's suggests that a chain may be uncovered linking behavioral traits like shyness to a brain function," Matthysse said...
...What is remarkable is the connection between a psychological trait and the autonomic nervous system that Professor Kagan has uncovered," Matthysse said. "Before, it was thought that shyness was an irreducible personality trait--no one thought that it might represent an overactive nervous system...
Gardner underscored the significance of Kagan's findings by pointing out the difficulty of isolating human behavioral characteristics. "We are not measuring atomic particles or examining generations of Drosophila," he said. "We are looking at human beings in different social contexts and the temperamental variability that results...