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...pair of research psychologists - Vincent Egan of the University of Leicester and Giray Cordan of the University of Exeter - completed a survey of 240 subjects, half of whom had been drinking, to find out how drinkers and nondrinkers experience attraction. What they found was interesting, if a bit creepy. (Learn about addiction and the brain...
...think we can learn that we should stop being reflexively opposed when someone else does [decriminalize] and should take seriously the possibility that anti-user enforcement isn't having much influence on our drug consumption," says Mark Kleiman, author of the forthcoming When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment and director of the drug policy analysis program at UCLA. Kleiman does not consider Portugal a realistic model for the U.S., however, because of differences in size and culture between the two countries...
...most crucial question facing the company, however, is quite basic: does Rosetta Stone actually work? The company's teaching method is called "dynamic immersion," in which users are taught a new language through images, text, and sound. There is neither translation nor grammar explanations. You learn by listening to people talk in the language you're trying to master, and by reading words on a screen. The images clue you into the meaning of the words. The system eschews rote memorization - Rosetta Stone promises you'll learn a second language in the same way a child learns...
...Berkeley Language Center. "They fail to present language as a representation of that language's culture." Author and entrepreneur Tim Ferriss, a regular language acquisition blogger who has become fluent in Spanish, German, Chinese and Japanese, is quick to credit Rosetta Stone for engaging more people in language learning. However, Ferriss argues that by shunning grammar and exercises leveraging one's native language, Rosetta Stone slows the learning process. "There's a real benefit to having the right dose of grammatical awareness, as well as English explanation," says Ferriss, whose book, The 4-Hour Workweek, is currently eighth...
...phone call informing him that he had been awarded the prestigious $72,000 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship. But instead of taking the call, Gaur silenced his cell phone and continued his home interview with the patient. It was only later that he checked his voicemail messages to learn that he was one of eight Harvard graduate students to snag the award. The fellowship recognizes new Americans—immigrants and their children—for creativity, accomplishment, and citizenship. The winners are highly motivated, focused, and committed to a particular field, ranging from public health to foreign policy. Program...