Word: research
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...fact, though, the original research behind this attractive notion said nothing about infants or even about intelligence, and it certainly made no claims about brain development. All it showed was that a group of college students did better on a battery of specialized tests shortly after listening to Mozart--and to make matters worse, no scientist has been able to duplicate those results, despite numerous attempts...
...reason that many protestors contest primate research so strongly, Gibbons said, is that they do not understand that researchers only use primates when absolutely necessary...
...think our researchers believe that they will move forward with the research that they are doing because it is the best thing for mankind, and we're going to try to continue the research," Gibbons said
...Harvard, Lawrence's research focused on international economics and trade policy, particularly in the Middle East...
...sign over the office copier is the kind of Dilbertesque humor one might see anywhere in cubicle land. But in a warren of basement rooms under Princeton University's engineering quad, the meaning is more, well, meaningful. The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory, after all, explores how the human mind affects machines. Anomalies is the key word: something different, abnormal, peculiar or not easily classified. In this case, they are the elusive powers of consciousness. Can the emanations of the brain really make the copier malfunction? Or maybe turn on the lights or even cause airplanes to fall from...