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...running study of a group of nuns who agreed to donate their brains when they died has found that isn't necessarily the case. About a third of the nuns whose brains at autopsy showed clear signs of the plaques and tangles associated with Alzheimer's disease had exhibited normal memory and cognitive function until the day they died. The difference: the blood vessels in their brains were in great shape...
...feel better about me too. But then something unexpected happened. One afternoon when I was 10 or so, I finished a 1,000-piece puzzle of the Milky Way and came to the realization that, puzzle-wise, I'd done all that I could do?meaning all that a normal child should ever wish to do. I realized that to master more difficult puzzles would be a sign not of desirable growth but of troubling compulsion...
...Teach For America corps members with the gains of similar students taught by non-Teach For America teachers in the same schools. It found that corps members’ classes made 10 percent more progress in one year in math than is typically expected and slightly exceeded the normal expectation for progress in reading. In addition, the students of Teach For America corps members achieved greater gains overall than did the students of other teachers—novice or veteran, certified or uncertified—in the same schools...
...string of financial problems. "We have no objection to competition as long as it is on a level playing field," says Kim Plaskett, director of corporate communications at Greyhound, which now offers a special online ticket rate of $18 on its New York City--Boston route, vs. the normal $35 fare...
...think a certain amount of mythology is inevitable when you have great overarching figures like this, but I think there's more than normal with King because he didn't come from mainstream culture and because a lot of people were profoundly uncomfortable with what he was doing, there's a greater need to make him a comfortable mythological figure. And of course, in one sad way to me, there is a tendency to make him a leader of his people, to reduce him to just doing something for black people. When you see him interacting with Johnson and negotiating...