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Still, Scientific Learning will have to be boffo to win broad acceptance in a market marked by fierce competition, feuding theorists and frequent disdain for the profit motive. But the payoff for any company that can help kids overcome barriers to learning must be measured in more than dollars. "Boy, if you can increase the confidence of students in their own ability, you can affect a change in their lives," says Kleyn. Back in New Jersey, Nicole Davis might want to write a poem about that...
...cashing in on that need. Identigene is preparing to offer an even cheaper, $150 test that will profile newborns' DNA to reassure anxious parents that they're leaving the hospital with their own child. "It's potentially a much bigger market than paternity testing," says Caskey. And a bigger payoff...
...drug companies are hot on the trail of the disease. ?And pharmaceutical companies don?t spend the time and money to study things unless they think they have a good chance of developing a drug,? says Gorman. Thursday?s report gives encouragement that further study may eventually yield a payoff. But for now many questions still remain to be answered, not the least of which is this: If presenilin is indeed shown to be involved in causing Alzheimer?s disease, is it the only, the main or one of several causative factors...
While restorative justice has roots in Christianity, its payoff is political and psychological. The conferences give victims the chance to confront criminals with the heartbreak they caused. The meetings' end goals, however, are rehabilitation and social engineering: they rehearse the prospect of a whole community once the prisoner is released back into society. Forgiveness is not a conference "agenda item," says Bruce Kittle, a Wisconsin pastor and clinical professor who consults on the state's restorative justice programs, but "we talk about it with victims beforehand. Particularly in violent cases, it sometimes has a more direct role." Says Walter Dickey...
...letters of gratitude to members of the Class of 1954 for nothing). Giving your $10 to senior gift is great, but don't try telling me it's in the sprit of Ghandhi-like altruism, or that every gift matters as much as the next in terms of the payoff for those giving...