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...what about those times when they experience a total blank? Says Hamlin: "A number of problems are not problems with memory at all. They are really problems with your attention." There are three basic steps in memory: registration, retention and retrieval. They occur sequentially; if new information isn't taken in (registered), it can't be stored. Focusing on incoming material, whether heard, seen or read, helps implant it in memory. Psychologist Cynthia Green advises students in her memory classes at New York City's Mount Sinai Medical Center that "often what we think we forgot we really didn...
...There is no specific date when that would occur," he said. "It could occur at the discretion of the Faculty, whenever they wanted it to happen...
...launching online services against burgeoning upstarts like Charles Schwab and E*Trade--just as Internet-based brokers start to offer subscribers such customized services as video interaction with financial advisers. The losers? Maybe neither. "These new approaches aren't displacing anyone," said Tyson, "but allowing more of this to occur than could otherwise...
...help of private weather firms, others guard against Mother Nature's whim with a financial tool--the weather derivative. Created little more than 2 1/2 years ago, weather derivatives are now a $5 billion industry. They are essentially futures contracts ensuring that if certain meteorological conditions unfavorable to sales occur, the company that purchased the contract will be paid without having to prove any losses. And in some cases, companies actually pay the issuer of the derivative if weather ends up being favorable to sales. Either way, the company gets a guaranteed revenue stream that provides a buffer against climatic...
...course, the worst manifestations occur when institutions or governments mandate it with phrases like "the national interest" (Kennedy kept journalists silent with that trick) or with loyalty oaths. During the McCarthy shame, graduate students were required to sign loyalty oaths when they applied for government grants. A dean at Harvard defended this practice as being merely pro forma--of no greater significance than licking the stamps on the application envelopes. At a faculty meeting, the great Italian scholar Renato Poggioli stood up and commented, "Mr. Dean, I am from Fascist Italy, and I will tell you something. First you licka...