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According to Wamsley, the subjects who dreamed about the maze generally performed below average on the first task and performed on par with the rest of the participants for the second task. But after controlling for the poor baseline performance of the dreaming group, their improvement was significantly higher than the other participating groups...
Wamsley said she thought that the initial poor performance of the dreaming group "could be causing them to both dream about it and improve a lot later...
Responding to the economic crisis and ensuing political corruption that hit Argentina in 2001, the poor, unemployed citizens of Buenos Aires took to the streets to sell cardboard. Two years after the chaos, an informal publishing house called “Eloisa Cartonera” opened to buy cardboard from cardboard-pickers called “cartoneros,” and to create “libros cartoneros,” books made with cardboard covers. This movement was born out of economic necessity and creativity, showing that literature can help build community...
...last pope was a great man, but he was also a weak administrator, a poor delegator, and sometimes a dreadful judge of character. The church's dilatory response to the sex abuse scandals was a testament to these weaknesses ... So the high-flying John Paul let scandals spread beneath his feet and the uncharismatic Ratzinger was left to clean them...
...Having awareness amongst these students about the challenges in education, the challenges in poor countries, I think that’s critical and it will help us make a lot of progress to have their open-minded, energetic thinking applied to these issues,” he said. “So I’m excited to hear what they’re thinking and what their questions...