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...rates. On average, in children with ADHD, the age at which 50% of the 40,000 points on the cortex - the brain's outer mantle - achieved peak thickness was 10 1/2, three years behind the typically developing kids whose cortex matured at age 7 1/2. The lag was most obvious in the prefrontal cortex, the study found, the area of the brain critical to cognitive functions like memory, attention focusing, higher-order motor control and the ability to suppress inappropriate responses and thoughts. One region, however, appeared to develop faster in the ADHD brain: the primary motor cortex. Combined with...
...Despite the obvious link between PetroChina and CNPC, UBS’s apologists contend that had UBS not served as underwriter, one of a number of other firms might have stepped in. But this clearly would not have been the case. As the result of a restriction imposed by China’s communist government, UBS is one of only two western firms that can serve as lead underwriter for companies in mainland Chinese markets, the other being Goldman Sachs...
...fighting and trend-chasing doomed classical music’s withering popularity—it was no single force but an historical perfect storm that drove the public away.No one could be sadder about the separation than Ross, whose enthusiasm for music as music suffuses the book. His obvious affection for all those composers that posterity forgot leads him occasionally to bite off a larger chunk than his readership can chew (the “Invisible Men” chapter in particular feels overstuffed), but for the most part he makes now-peripheral figures like Franz Leh?...
...first half: Five more Stanford points sandwiched around an obvious goaltending on the Harvard basket that wasn't whistled. Amaker got in the ref's ear when he came back down the floor. Eight points for junior guard Anthony Goods...
Instead, former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin became chairman, and German-born, London-based Sir Win Bischoff was named acting CEO. A search party of board members is looking for a new boss while, six blocks south of Citi's Manhattan headquarters, the man whom Weill once saw as his obvious successor but booted in 1998, Jamie Dimon, was leading archrival JPMorgan Chase through the credit market's troubles with far less drama...