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...much intellectual ability a person starts out with, a mentally demanding job can keep his brain healthy well into retirement. In fact, the gains for people who have high IQs are relatively small, leading Potter to speculate that having a complex job, "may make up for a lack of advantage early in life, whether they be socioeconomic or otherwise." he says. So depending on what you do for a living, that daily grind may actually be the ultimate brain booster...
...highest office, may help reform the way current and future Americans conceive of those who hold power, and it may also affect many Americans’ unconscious assumptions that the reason why an African-American or a woman has never been elected to the highest office is because they lack the necessary skills and mental capability to handle such responsibility...
...courthouse. Like the Horace Mann case, featuring vicious Facebook groups aimed at high school teachers, Venkatesan’s move to a lawsuit and book deal represent a failure of reconciliation within the classroom. Student-teacher arguments are nothing new, of course, but these escalated clashes still suggest a lack of mutual respect and an inability to resolve disagreements amicably. Venkatesan would have done well to bring her grievances to a university administrator before searching for an attorney...
...inconvenience and lack of transparency have soured many who had bought into the China miracle. "As we are not allowed into China, why should we put our money there,? writes Weckherlin on his blog. He insists he remains "for China," but some irate bloggers on his site have posted lengthy commentaries on the merits of quitting China for other emerging economies like Vietnam...
...Wounds caused by damaged credibility, of course, are also hard to heal. "The problem with credibility," says Pew's Keeter, "Is that people think of it as a fundamental character trait. Some measure of lack of honesty is damaging because it leads to a broader generalization...