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...urges a slogan in the weight-lifting gym. Taped to a wall nearby are rows of so-called self-criticism essays that the girls have written assessing their own performances. "I must try much harder," says Cloud's paper. "I do not want to disappoint." Some practice rooms are lit by just one low-wattage bulb, while the dormitories reek of urine and sweat. There isn't a blade of grass on any of the school's athletic fields. Not that we are allowed to photograph anything the propaganda director considers "inferior aspects" of the school. Other aspects deemed unfit...
...Monday. "Clearly he is very much associated with that." The Republican opposition research machine went into overdrive, bombarding reporters with all the telling details of Johnson's record as a powerful man who profited from his own relationships. Conservative blogs and the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal lit up with glee...
...Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience reports in the Journal of the American Medical Association that elderly patients with dementia who were exposed to bright lights in long-term care facilities scored 5% better on cognitive tests and had 19% fewer depressive symptoms than similar patients residing in less well-lit facilities. In the study, Van Someren's group used 1,000-lux bulbs in overhead lights, which is equivalent to the brightness of television studio lights, and compared their effects to those of 300-lux bulbs, which are found in office and retail settings. "I was surprised by the results...
...test scores is the same benefit that Alzheimer's patients can expect from taking cholinesterase inhibitors, which stall the advent of dementia by strengthening communication between brain nerve cells. "Because it gives the same effect, on average, it may make sense for people to consider living in a better-lit environment," he says. While experts don't feel the results are enough to constitute a treatment for symptoms, when it comes to staving off the mental decline of dementia, a new rule of thumb might be "Let there be light...
...study one or two nations, the way the program is set up now, students should be given the freedom to study larger “themes” like the roots of revolution or the rhetoric of religion, subjects which are inherently interdisciplinary and transnational.To rebuke Hist and Lit too severely would be unfair, however. The program is largely dependent upon departmental course offerings, and “transnationalism” as a concept has not been adequately defined. In the words of anthropologist Arjun Appadurai, “No idiom has yet emerged to capture the collective interests...