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...rate of sub-Saharan Africa remained above 5% last year. Ghana has just celebrated 50 years of independence and is prospering. Last year's elections in Congo went better than most people dared hope. A new peace deal has been brokered in the Ivory Coast. But there are also serious negatives: conflict between Ethiopia and Somalia; political repression in Zimbabwe; genocide in Darfur...
This means that scientists can, in effect, switch off a person's grasp of numbers. It's fascinating, both because it reduces a serious learning disability to the mere flick of a neural switch and because, by doing so, it holds out a tantalizing possibility that one day a cure may be as simple as flicking that switch in reverse. Cohen Kadosh hopes the result will allow scientists to develop a diagnostic tool for dyscalculia based on neuroimaging. Identifying children with developmental dyscalculia would let parents intervene earlier to teach important math concepts, just as they can intervene today...
...first event featured advisers for GOP candidates Rudy Guiliani, John McCain, and Mitt Romney, while Democratic strategists for Hillary Rodham Clinton, John Edwards, and Barack Obama faced off at the second forum. But while the candidates represented at yesterday’s forum are generally not seen as serious challengers to the GOP and Democratic heavyweights, the panelists emphasized that the outcome of the 2008 campaign is largely uncertain. “The road to the White House is long and windy and there are a lot of dead carcasses of presidents of the United States,” said...
...Committee on Social Clubs presented a report yesterday recommending that student leaders be held personally responsible for “serious harm” related to alcohol consumption or hazing during student group gatherings...
...here serious harm, or the potential for serious harm, has come to any person as a result of consumption of alcohol or drugs at an event held, sponsored, organized or supported by a student group...and the individual or individuals directly responsible are not identified, the host or hosts of the event will be held personally responsible. If the hosts are also not identified, the officers of the organization will be held personally responsible,” the report reads...