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Stanishev responded by citing the overall improvements in Bulgarian society, including its three-party coalition and its rapid increase in foreign direct investment...
...Senate passed a spending bill this weekend that will maintain current levels of funding for financial aid and research through March, a move that will impinge on higher education support due to the current rapid rise in inflation. This financial support may be further reduced if spending cuts arise as a result of the government’s proposed bailout package, which the House rejected yesterday...
Taking the rapid pace of inflation into account—a rise of almost 3.5 percentage points since August 2007—this deferment of budget proposals signifies a decrease in real funding...
...particular interest is a 2005 psychology paper published in Science by Alexander Todorov of Princeton and his colleagues, which concludes that “rapid, unreflective trait inferences can contribute to voting choices,” rather than deliberative reasoning. In trials the researchers vindicated their hypothesis: Almost 72 percent of Senate race outcomes were successfully predicted simply by showing a sample of the electorate pictures of the candidates for whom they could vote for milliseconds at a time, and asking them to make snap judgments on those candidates’ competence...
...questions and theories about the timing of childhood mental illness and cognitive disorders. Some scientists now believe that ADHD and Tourette's syndrome, which typically appear by the time a child reaches age 7, may be related to the brain proliferation period. Though both disorders have genetic roots, the rapid growth of brain tissue in early childhood, especially in regions rich in dopamine, "may set the stage for the increase in motor activities and tics," says Dr. Martin Teicher, director of developmental biopsychiatry research at McLean Hospital. "When it starts to prune in adolescence, you often see symptoms recede...