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...Bush’s nomination of three new rabidly conservative judicial nominees this week. Although the Bush administration doesn’t dare claim openly it wants to tear down Roe, its judicial nominees aren’t afraid to say so out loud. One of them, Carolyn Kuhl, advocated for Roe v. Wade’s devastation while in the Reagan administration. (As my dad used to say about irresponsible drivers when he drove me to school during rush hour: “They’re out there, Beccah, they’re out there...
...come. A full Senate vote on the nomination of Jeffrey Sutton - whose states' rights advocacy has helped limit the scope of disability, age and race discrimination statutes - to the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals is expected Tuesday. Then Thursday, the Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote on Carolyn Kuhl, whom George Bush wants to seat on the appellate court in California. As a Reagan administration lawyer, Kuhl argued hard for tax-exempt status for the racially discriminatory Bob Jones University, and for the reversal of Roe v. Wade. Sutton and Kuhl have run up against heavy Democratic opposition...
...experts point out that Bruer too has stretched his arguments far beyond what makes sense. "We may not have neuroscience research to back up a lot of what we believe about child development," says Dr. Patricia Kuhl, an expert on speech and hearing at the University of Washington. "But we do have a wealth of data over the past 40 years from developmental and cognitive psychology that tell us those early years are hugely important...
...they're deaf--they gradually lose the capacity to learn it at all. Similarly, kids who have uncorrected eye disorders early on will lose the capacity to coordinate the vision in both eyes. "We can't prove conclusively that these deficits involve the wiring of the brain," admits Kuhl. "But we're pretty sure it isn't happening...
...real problem with parents' playing Mozart or making the baby listen to foreign-language tapes or forcing him to look at works of great art is that this satisfies the parents' agenda, not necessarily the child's. "Babies are like little scientists," says Kuhl, who, along with two co-authors, presents her ideas in a book also coming out next month, The Scientist in the Crib. "They take in data, make hypotheses about the outside world and test them." This sort of learning goes on throughout life, but Kuhl argues convincingly that the process is most intense and wide ranging...