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...report’s publication to make their idea for a forum on the definition of creativity into a reality. Every week, in order to focus discussion and spark conversation, one member presents a scholar’s theory of creativity before participants begin an informal debate about this particular philosophy.Croft and Clapp insist that finding a definition of creativity, while vague, is urgent for practical purposes. Troubled by how an increase in standardized testing in public schools and higher instruction has pushed arts education to the periphery of curricula, Croft and Clapp hope the group will offer suggestions...
...Just as important, science is working to develop tests that are more precise than the fallible feel method or even the PSA reading. Ideally, once a blood test reveals elevated antigens, it could also spot particular markers for cancers that are aggressive enough to be deadly and distinguish them from markers for cancers that are tamer...
...Andriole recommends a screening approach tailored to the particular patient. "If the man sitting in front of me was an elderly man with a medical condition and he looked like he had a limited life expectancy - say seven to 10 years," Andriole says, "I think I could have a good conscience in telling him that the PSA test is not necessarily...
...Special-needs dolls, and Down Syndrome dolls in particular, have come in for criticism from parents who believe they pigeonhole their children and rely on stereotypes. "It's a scary image for a lot of families," says Sheila Hebein, the executive director of the Chicago-based National Association for Down Syndrome. "They're highlighting differences that do not exist in all of our children. Certainly most do not have their tongues hanging out." In fact, she says, many work hard in therapy to improve muscle tone so they can better control their mouths. (Dollmaker Parks offers a nonprotruding option...
...that aid, AIG would have gone bankrupt in September and the bonus promises would have been torn up. AIG was not allowed to go bankrupt because Lehman Brothers had just failed and the people at the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve worried (with reason) that another failure - in particular, the failure of a firm that wrote default insurance for banks around the world - might wipe out the global financial system and unleash an economic catastrophe far worse than what we're going through now. In short, the people at AIG FP, the very division that wrote the default-insurance...