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With Spanglish, Brooks has proven once again that he’s one of the best filmmakers of our time: the balance of comedy and drama here is no small feat. But the real achievement is the writing. With prosaic gems ranging from sweet (“they should name a gender after you”) to damned clever (“lately your low self-esteem is just good common sense”), Brooks is almost guaranteed a best original screenwriting nod come Oscar time. Oddly, he’s able to do this in with one of those...
...white subjects, who were proven before the experiment to be consciously unprejudiced, experienced greater activation in these regions when shown black faces subliminally than white faces. In contrast, when the images were displayed for 525 milliseconds, the frontal cortex—the area of the brain that deals with inhibition and control—experienced greater activation and the amygdala experienced less activation than in the subliminal condition...
...face and also causes severe joint pain and fatigue. The condition can take years to improve. "There is an increased risk of cancer and other conditions," Professor John Henry, former head of the U.K.'s National Poisons Service, told Nature magazine last month. While deliberate poisoning hasn't been proven, it isn't unknown in Russia and its former satellites. In Chechnya in March 2002, a rebel commander named Khattab died after handling a letter coated with an unidentified poison; the Russian foreign-intelligence service fsb claimed credit. In July 2003, Russian investigative journalist Yuri Shchekochikin died from a sudden...
Without knowing how a professor actually engages with his or her students, inside and outside of the classroom, the University cannot make the best tenure decisions. While student letters have yet to be proven the most effective method for evaluating teaching skills, it is an idea to consider. Watching Princeton’s experience with student letters will help Harvard gauge the program’s value, and we expect Harvard’s administration to keep its eyes peeled...
Experience has proven most helpful for the aspiring broadcaster. Limited by injury on the field for an entire season, Wolff has been steady in the booth for the nearly 200 games he has broadcasted in three years...