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...struggles in the beginning of the season were so great,” Corriero said. “We’re so much more weathered. We’re not afraid to lose. Now we’ve got this momentum and we’re starting to peak at the time we need to peak...
Among the girls in Giedd's study, brain size peaks around age 111/2. For the boys, the peak comes three years later. "For kids, that's a long time," Giedd says. His research shows that most parts of the brain mature faster in girls. But in a 1999 study of 508 boys and girls, Virginia Tech researcher Harriet Hanlon found that some areas mature faster in boys. Specifically, some of the regions involved in mechanical reasoning, visual targeting and spatial reasoning appeared to mature four to eight years earlier in boys. The parts that handle verbal fluency, handwriting and recognizing...
...then known as the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art, later to become the San Francisco Art Institute. Over the course of 20 years Kiyama studied traditional western art, becoming a painter of some note. He also took to cartooning, undoubtedly inspired by American newspaper comics, which were reaching the peak of their golden era at the time. In a style seemingly inspired by the likes of George McManus' "Bringing Up Father" and Harold Gray's "Little Orphan Annie," Kiyama created 52 episodes for a projected weekly series to be printed in one of the city's Japanese language newspapers. While...
...Thai Airways?have canceled some direct flights to the island. It's now possible to spend an evening dining in one of the island's finest Thai restaurants and have the whole room and staff to yourself. The Phuket Tourist Association (PTA) estimates that in January and February alone?peak season on Thailand's Andaman coast?the drop-off in tourist arrivals will cost the island $500 million, or almost double the property damage inflicted by the tsunami. "It's all gone to hell in a handbasket," says James R. Batt, managing director of Laguna Phuket, the island's largest...
...Estimated number of Koreans who play a new online computer game, World of Warcraft, during peak hours. The subscription-based game has sold more than 700,000 copies worldwide