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...predecessor. That could prove useful in the delicate task of persuading the spd's left wing, led by a vigorous younger generation, to work in tandem with the Christian Democratic right. "This will commit the party to the grand coalition more than before," says Gerd Langguth, a political scientist at Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University in Bonn. Stoiber's exit, meanwhile, removes a powerful potential rival from Merkel's Cabinet. So predictions of the grand coalition's demise are premature, says Bernhard Wessel, a political scientist at Berlin's Free University. He calls Müntefering's departure a "beneficial shock...
...graders to do just that. Dubbed Brainology, the unorthodox approach uses basic neuroscience to teach kids how the brain works and how it can continue to develop throughout life. "The message is that everything is within the kids' control, that their intelligence is malleable," says Lisa Blackwell, a research scientist at Columbia University who has worked with Dweck to develop and run the program, which has helped increase the students' interest in school and turned around their declining math grades. More than any teacher or workshop, Blackwell says, "parents can play a critical role in conveying this message to their...
...background for a detective thriller about the mysterious death of a six-year-old Inuit boy. Unlikely too is the investigator, Smilla Qaavigaaq Jaspersen, a woman caught between the native Greenland culture of her hunter-tracker mother and the well-appointed world of her Danish father, a physician and scientist. Like Ross Macdonald in his Lew Archer novels of darkest California, Hoeg creates an unfamiliar but palpable world that steadily envelops the reader...
This Stanford political scientist specializes in minority politics, and is currently researching how neighborhood politics shape black racial and political attitudes...
...other professors who have been offered tenure specialize in an array of fields. Brent H. Edwards, currently at Rutgers, is an expert on African-American literature. Stanford political scientist Claudine Gay is especially concerned with minority politics. Saidiya Hartman, currently a UC-Berkeley English professor, specializes in feminism and psychoanalysis in African-American contexts, as well as visual arts in African-American culture. Finally, Jacob K. Olupuna, of UC-Davis, studies African traditional religion, West African society and culture, and African religion in the Americas...