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...trying to talk. Tallal and Merzenich go so far as to suggest that some forms of language impairment could turn out to be more correctable than poor hearing or poor eyesight. They point out that the earphones that transmit the exaggerated speech sounds to children's ears in the lab are only temporary aids. "When you take off eyeglasses, you can't see," observes Kuhl. "But when you take off these funny-looking earphones, then you might just proceed to understanding normal speech...
...medicine's entrepreneurs have turned health care into a corporate battlefield increasingly governed by the promise of stock market wealth, incentives that reward minimal care and a brand of aggressive competition alien to front-line doctors for whom dressing for success still means wearing khakis and a lab coat...
While Wechsler offers an innovative solution to a long-standing problem that college administrators would be wise to consider, it has two important flaws for implementation on college campuses. First, the battle against "second-hand binge effects" presumably encourages students to realize the effects that their roommates, friends' or lab partners' drinking have on their own college career. By identifying the hazards caused by drinking on peer groups, Wechsler hopes to mobilize students to drink more moderately or not to drink...
...MIGHT BE HARD TO PICTURE AT THIS juncture in American history, but there are times, even now, when working for the government can be exciting. Consider a secret Department of Energy training exercise--code name: Mirage Gold--that was staged in New Orleans in October 1994. Hundreds of normally lab-bound nuclear scientists fanned out through the French Quarter carrying briefcases with hidden radiation detectors, while rental vans packed with high-tech electronics roamed the streets and planes fitted with spy cameras swooped overhead. After three days, they found what they were hunting for: a simulated nuclear weapon hidden...
...surprised. The stimulant known as speed, embraced in the 1970s by outlaw bikers, all-night revelers, exam-bound college students and long-haul truckers, is more popular than ever, with teens and middle-class workers and suburbanites swelling the ranks of users. Meth production is surging in clandestine labs set up by drug syndicates and individual users alike. "It's absolutely epidemic," declares John Coonce, head of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration's meth-lab task force...