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Planting mango trees and banyans at the British Museum is just a cultural truth made literal: the roots of India grow deep in Britain's soil. The "Garden and Cosmos" exhibition, museum director Neil MacGregor promised when he announced it last year, would shed light on an "emerging superpower." They may not have known it at the time, but the Jodhpuri painters who depicted the worldly and otherworldly powers in both classical and radically innovative ways, foreshadowed India's role as a burgeoning global cultural heavyweight. Like modern Bollywood filmmakers and Indian writers and musicians, they recognized tradition, but took...
...meeting, psychologist and neuroscientist Helena Westerberg of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm compared the cognitive abilities of 45 young adults (average age 25) with those of 55 older adults (average age 65). She found that after five weeks of computerized training on tasks ranging from reproducing a series of light flashes to repeating digits in the opposite order that they were given, the older group was able to reach the same level of working memory, attention and reaction time that the younger group had at the outset. (Notably, the younger group had even greater improvements...
...they lost second spot to the Brits - whose fashion sense is usually likened to that of the poll's slob champs, the Yanks. France's fourth-place finish for "Most Quiet" was tarnished by the Wagnerian-lunged Germans' walking off with the bronze. (See pictures of East Germany making light of its past...
When the Pope presented him with the light green softcover document after their 35-minute closed-door meeting, Obama quickly responded, "Yes, this is what we had talked about." And like that humble schoolboy, the President assured the Pope he would read it on the flight to Ghana...
...Suspicion also surrounds Scotland Yard, which chose not to notify those targeted by the hackers and said on July 9 that it would not investigate the claims because no new evidence has come to light since its original investigation in 2007. (Read "A Case for Scotland Yard...