Word: minding
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...variant children--about 12% of girls and 20% of boys--grow into transgender adults. "Gender development is a multifactorial process that evolves," he says. Nevertheless, Dr. Norman Spack, who spearheaded the Boston clinic and has assessed 50 children under age 21, says, "I've not had one change their mind...
...perhaps that is Kotlikoff's crucial point and one that our presidential candidates should bear in mind. If our health-care woes are reaching critical mass, perhaps drastic measures are the only way to effect real change...
...people wind up befuddled and annoyed. The culprit: bad design, a longtime target of the Northwestern University professor. In his seminal 1990 book, The Design of Everyday Things, Norman explained why, for example, people so often switch on the wrong burner of an oven range--in a person's mind, a straight row of control knobs doesn't logically map onto a square stove...
Whether that is true or not (and many neutral observers would say the latter), the Administration has known for some months that its horse was heading for the knacker's yard: Musharraf's popularity at home has plummeted since March, when he suspended the independent-minded Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. That sparked massive protests by moderate Pakistanis, the people who had once backed the general against al-Qaeda terrorists and Taliban militants. With a general election looming in Pakistan, the Bush Administration began to write a new cover story, giving its hero an unlikely sidekick...
...word that comes to mind is crazy-looking,” said MIT senior Cindy Y. Chen...