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...study published early this year, Dr. Marco Battaglia of San Raffaele University in Milan, Italy, recruited 49 third- and fourth-grade children and administered questionnaires to rank them along a commonly accepted shyness scale. He showed each child a series of pictures of faces exhibiting joy, anger or no emotion at all and asked them to identify the expressions. The children who scored high on the shyness meter, it turned out, had a consistently hard time deciphering the neutral and the angry faces...
...rank the schools, the Princeton Review asked 2,885 high school students and 1,045 parents which “dream college” they would most like to attend (or see their child attend) without regard to the chances of admission or cost...
...Kennedy Jr. Forum at the Institute of Politics (IOP). Every week, the Forum creates a venue for the greatest minds in the world to speak, for all to hear, about pressing issues of our time. The Forum has one simple rule: every speaker, irrespective of his or her rank, title, or stature, must stand before our community and answer any questions posed by the audience...
...That said, the U.S. hasn't yet ceded command and control to the Iraqis. "We train the rank-and-file but we're the leadership," says the Pioneer commander. However well-trained, the Iraqi special forces comprise only a tiny fraction of the 57,000-member Iraqi army, which has been plagued by low morale, inconsistent training and infiltration by insurgents...
...told you in countless verbal settings, without the rational distance that writing grants, I’ll tell you again: Blur is ten times the band that Oasis is. You rank among Brit-philes of the highest order, but your ability to discern the better band between these two leads to doubt about the accuracy of your critical taste...