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Following Bob Dole's recent string of primary victories, a new TIME/CNN Poll shows President Clinton with a nine percentage point lead over Dole. The survey of 826 registered voters has Clinton leading Dole 49 percent to 40, a slight drop from a February poll showing Clinton with a 52...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kevorkian Found Not Guilty | 3/8/1996 | See Source »

It is perhaps this very difficulty in processing the real world with any semblance of understanding that defines Travis's state: he cannot perceive reality beyond a basic conflict between a common man/hero in the evil world he must inhabit. Accordingly, the sight of a thirteen-year-old prostitute (Jodie...

Author: By Nicholas R. Rapold, | Title: Yeah, We're Still Lookin' at DeNiro | 2/15/1996 | See Source »

This difference in perception might just be critical, says University of Washington neuroscientist Patricia Kuhl. For it is during the first year of life that children form what Kuhl terms "mental magnets," which sweep up similar-sounding speech sounds and file them away in phonic bins. If language-impaired children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ZOOMING IN ON DYSLEXIA | 1/29/1996 | See Source »

Moderation, however, is not easily defined. It cannot be defined in terms of action or behavior on the part of the drinker, as Wechsler advocates, because the students who are adversely affected by drunkards perceive the extent of the harm in different ways. For example, a student who has never...

Author: By Marios V. Broustas, | Title: How to Fight Binge Drinking | 1/8/1996 | See Source »

Wechsler assumes that students will be persuaded by the "second hand binge effects," but his approach neglects to set a definition or a norm at which students are bothered by drinkers. Wechsler's approach, therefore, seems to miss the most fundamental aspect of teaching students the affects of drinking: what...

Author: By Marios V. Broustas, | Title: How to Fight Binge Drinking | 1/8/1996 | See Source »

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