Word: olmstead
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...Studying a group of more than 5,000 children born between 1976 and 1982 in Olmstead County, Minn., researchers tracked the number of operations each youngster underwent before age 4, as well as his or her scores on reading, writing and math tests, administered once a year from elementary school through high school. Infants who had just one exposure to anesthesia showed no greater risk of having learning problems by age 19, but those with two or more exposures had a 60% increased chance of developing a learning disability compared with babies who had not had any operations. Three...
...with a skill set or an ability that is incredibly accomplished, far beyond their years." They tend to be in chess, music and math, more in quantitative fields and less in qualitative disciplines, where "kids are gifted in ways that are hard to measure." But then there is Marla Olmstead, a four-year-old artist whom Quart visited, whose dozens of brightly colored abstract oil paintings have brought in $300,000, as well as calls from Oprah and David Letterman. Some prodigies make successful transitions to adult accomplishment, but others flounder as they get older. Gifted children, an intellectual step...
...site. The 265-acre Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain houses a collection of over 14,000 different plants and receives 250,000 visitors a year. Originally Harvard property, it was donated to the city in 1882 to be included in the park system designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmstead. Boston then leased the park back to Harvard for 1,000 years. —Staff writer Natalie I. Sherman can be reached at nsherman@fas.harvard.edu...
Pring-Wilson lives with his longtime girlfriend Janice Olmstead, who recently moved from Colorado to Massachusetts and now teaches in a public school here, according to Parker. As a result, Pring-Wilson now has “some ties to Massachusetts”—reducing the risk that he will attempt to flee the state, Parker said...
...teddy bears under their arms and file, a little sadly, into the buses that will take them back to parents and kid sisters and competition for boys and competition with boys and grades that will often be less than Superior. "Many of them write to me years later," says Olmstead, "to say that their days at camp were the best four days of their lives ." --By Pico Iyer