Word: notionalism
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Studies support the notion that kids learn best through play. "Some visitors assume it's all about fun and games," says Portia Hamilton-Sperr, who founded Philadelphia's Please Touch Museum, "but behind this there's a lot of serious research about how kids learn." Accordingly, museums are devising exhibits to build the motor skills and stimulate the creativity of their littlest visitors...
...Martin's; 355 pages), is almost certainly talking about somebody around here. Perrotta is probably best known as the author of Election, a novel about a vicious race for class president at a New Jersey high school that became a satisfyingly nasty movie. He didn't invent the notion that high school sucks, nor is he breaking new ground when he reveals that American suburbs are petri dishes of ennui and alienation. But he shows admirable zeal in prosecuting the case, and he comes as close as anybody to answering a not unimportant question: If the suburbs are the perfect...
...think what's over is the old notion of retirement, of getting a gold watch, of going to Florida, sitting on the beach and doing nothing else. That was the model when people didn't live very long beyond retirement. Now to retire and do nothing for 30 years is not an option...
...music biz often doesn't, says Cowell, is that "it's personalities, it's conflict, it's all of those things that actually make [performers] interesting." Cowell has led a rebellion against the tyranny of self-esteem that is promoted on talk shows and in selfhelp books--the notion that everyone who tries deserves to win. At bottom, people are booing Cowell for gleefully confronting us with a fundamental truth: some are more deserving than others. That may not make him America's idol. But somehow we don't think he minds. --By James Poniewozik
...victims but tens of thousands if left untreated. What lured this Korean-born physician from working with leprosy patients in Hawaii to heading up the immunization program at the World Health Organization (WHO) and led to his being appointed the agency's top executive last year was the notion that as devastating as these diseases could be, they could also be stopped. "What I learned from my career in public health is the importance of action," he says. But when there are 192 member states to answer to, action is not always easy. WHO's responsibilities range from providing basic...