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...reporting of war crimes against women and children, moves to discourage child conscription, to monitor the effects of economic sanctions on children, and to ban land mines. During the Iran-Iraq war, Iran sometimes sent armies of children through Iraqi minefields, sacrificing them in order to make a safe pathway for troops...
...come in and done so many things that have divided the community." In particular, educators express frustration with the cutbacks in special education--which the U.S. Department of Education is currently investigating at EAI schools in Baltimore--and with EAI's teaching program, called Tesseract. Named after a magical pathway in the children's classic A Wrinkle in Time, Tesseract stresses small classes and individualized lesson plans. But, says Joe Nathan, director of the Center for School Change at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, who turned down a chance to sit on EAI's board...
...Smashing Pumpkins too are clearing out a new rock-'n'-roll road. It's a difficult pathway, leading from disaffection and despair to emotional consummation. But for listeners looking to take a journey, not just a joyride, it's a trip that shouldn't be missed...
When Damasio worked with patients in whom the connection between emotional brain and neocortex had been severed because of damage to the brain, he discovered how central that hidden pathway is to how we live our lives. People who had lost that linkage were just as smart and quick to reason, but their lives often fell apart nonetheless. They could not make decisions because they didn't know how they felt about their choices. They couldn't react to warnings or anger in other people. If they made a mistake, like a bad investment, they felt no regret or shame...
Regardless of what eventually happens in the marketplace, the discovery of leptin is occasion for celebration. It has provided scientists with a new avenue for exploring a still poorly understood metabolic pathway, one that probably consists of many other equally powerful compounds, each of which could lead to new drugs...