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...skills that are both related and unrelated to playing a musical instrument, according to Schlaug, “The ones that learn to play musical instruments have to learn to recognize and interpret visual patterns very quickly,” said Schlaug. “It is possible that note learning and playing from staff and understanding these visual symbols that these musicians have to do translate into other visual tasks.” The participants were recruited from public and music schools in the Boston area. They participated in three to four six-hour tests in the span...
Featuring a key-note address by a former CIA agent, traditional bánh-mì Vietnamese sandwiches, and a “sexual” poetry reading, the third summit for the New England Union of Vietnamese Student Associations brought together Vietnamese students from nine different schools in a two-day event hosted by the Harvard Vietnamese Association this weekend. “We tailored the entire summit program to expose students to Vietnam not only in terms of its history and culture, but also modern Vietnam in an economic and political sense,” said...
...Garton on a QB draw gets good yardage, but it's coming back because of a holding call. Brings up 2nd and 17. Side note: The ref chunked the flag into one of the player...
...songs that follow mellow out. Rage exhausted, only cynicism remains. The chorus likens current disillusionment to Hemingway and the Lost Generation’s loss of faith, “Inside tolls the bell / Outside all is well.” The record ends, though, on a lighter note. The final song, “Before You Were Young,” is the song of a man who vacillates between hope and despair. Nostalgic lyrics are coupled with ascending high-pitched piano runs and at the dramatic climax are married to booming cymbals and beating drums as Healy sincerely...
...Burma has scheduled multi-party elections in 2010. The polls are considered a charade by many international observers, who note that the leader of the main opposition party, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, is under house arrest and is barred from participating. But even after locking up a woman whose National League for Democracy won the 1990 elections that the junta then ignored, Burma's ruling brass still appears spooked by the power of the people. "Burma's leaders are clearing the decks of political activists," says Pearson, "before they announce the next round of sham political...