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...this point Salinger had a general destination in mind: he wanted to be a writer. In the fall of 1939, he signed up for a writing class at Columbia University taught by Whit Burnett, founder and editor of Story, a highly regarded, little magazine that had been the first place to publish William Saroyan, Joseph Heller and Carson McCullers. Burnett quickly took notice of his talented pupil and made sure that his magazine would be the first place to publish Salinger. In its March-April 1940 issue, Story carried "The Young Folks," a brief, acidic vignette of college students...
Popular wisdom once held that a mind at rest was like an engine idling - not much going on under the hood. To glean insights into how the brain worked, scientists would study only volunteers in action, measuring their physiological or biochemical responses as they completed specific mental tasks. But more recently, thanks in large part to the proliferation of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which precisely maps brain activity based on changes in blood-oxygen levels, neuroscientists have found that important activity in the brain - related in particular to memory and learning - may occur when it is at rest...
...Harvard studies all used different approaches, their overall findings were remarkably similar. "The brain is trying to weave ideas together even when you don't think you are thinking of anything," notes Johns Hopkins behavioral neurologist and memory expert Dr. Barry Gordon. That's something to keep in mind the next time you catch yourself daydreaming in a meeting or idly surfing Facebook when you should be studying...
...doctrine of Responsibility to Protect makes it the appropriate body to spearhead this endeavor. Adopted in 2001, this policy calls on all nations to provide for their collective security through shared responsibility of world crises. The tragedy in Haiti unmistakably qualifies as a crisis. With this in mind, the U.N. is the proper agent to organize necessary supplies and services in the short term and sustain the Haitian government in the long term, since it can best facilitate the cross-national efforts required under the Responsibility to Protect...
...Anne J. Hathaway proceeded down Mass. Ave atop a fire engine red Bentley convertible, the fair-skinned actress did not seem to mind the chill of the falling snow as scantily clad, cross-dressing men from the Hasty Pudding Theatricals fawned over...