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...hard to get a teenager off the couch and working on that all important college essay? You might blame it on their immature nucleus accumbens, a region in the frontal cortex that directs motivation to seek rewards. James Bjork at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism has been using fMRI to study motivation in a challenging gambling game. He found that teenagers have less activity in this region than adults do. "If adolescents have a motivational deficit, it may mean that they are prone to engaging in behaviors that have either a really high excitement factor...
BARCELONA, Spain — On the first night of my summer study abroad program, our teaching fellow led 15 jet-lagged Harvard students through the narrow streets of Barcelona’s Old City to a restaurant off La Rambla, the city’s touristy yet iconic nucleus, which slices through the original part of the city. Brought to a long table on the roof deck of the short building, we met our professor and his family. The sun was setting, the wine flowed freely, and it felt like we could have been in the countryside rather than...
After a number of vulnerable twilight years, the 30-year-old Core Curriculum is prepared at last to give way as the nucleus of all educational experiences at Harvard and be supplanted by the new General Education program beginning...
...well documented that the Dodgers players had some turmoil amongst themselves last season. How will you help bridge the gap between the young nucleus of Dodgers and the seasoned veterans? -Robert Timm, Laguna Hills, Calif.Well, we talk about it. The veterans are there for a reason, not only to take their talent to the field but to help the youngsters along. And what we've encouraged both the veterans and the youngsters to do is just feed off each other. We want to play winning baseball and we want to make sure that there are no distractions that are going...
...Prince Andrew, 22, second in line to the throne and a helicopter pilot. The decks of the Invincible and the Hermes were jammed with munitions and the latest in British aerial fighting gear: vertical-takeoff Harrier attack aircraft and Sea King helicopters. Some 2,000 Royal Marines, the nucleus of an assault group, were also aboard the ships. Once out on the Atlantic, the carriers were joined by destroyers, frigates and support vessels until the fleet numbered close to 30. Running at night under blackout conditions, the largest British military armada since World War II began its long, slow voyage...