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...difference between you and me," a visiting Chinese student told University of Michigan psychologist Richard Nisbett not long ago, "is that I think the world is a circle, and you think it's a line." The remark caught the professor off guard with its size. It prompted him to write a book, The Geography of Thought, about the differences--culturally encoded over a few hundred generations--between the Western and the Asian mind...
...Sullivan. In the most recent meeting, he told the team that he had brought several candidates in for interviews, but declined to say who the candidates were.Other media outlets have been speculating about who the next coach might be. One person whose name has been frequently mentioned is former Michigan and Seton Hall coach Tommy Amaker. Amaker, who was let go by Michigan after coaching there for six seasons, has been mentioned by the Boston Globe, Sportsline.com, and the Detroit News as a serious candidate.One reason Amaker’s name has come up is he is not only...
Harvard won’t be his only stop. Clinton will also speak at the commencement ceremonies of five other institutions: University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Middlebury College, Rochester Institute of Technology, University of New Hampshire, and Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., according to news releases on the universities’ Web sites...
...time in high schools in the last 12 years as a reporter. But (as I suspect you knew) I don't have kids, so of course I don't have "regular contact" with teenagers-that would be a little creepy. It would also be irrelevant to the University of Michigan Monitoring the Future data, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. These surveys of 8th, 10th, and 12th graders show that drug use has decreased since 1995. As for hospital-admission data, you offer none for the last five years...
...Michigan Democrat John Dingell will be a key player in the debate about lowering carbon dioxide emissions--not just on cars, but economy-wide. The new chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Dingell comes from a state congenitally opposed to any measure that could pinch the auto industry. Democrats hope to spin that in their favor, arguing that any climate-change legislation that gets through his committee will have the legitimacy of having cleared a high...