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...Riverside designed the most definitive study of the issue to date. The study used a DVD called Baby Wordsworth (part of the Baby Einstein series), which is aimed at teaching babies new vocabulary words, and assigned a group of 12-to-24-month-olds to watch it daily for six weeks. Turns out, the videos didn't work. There was no difference in language acquisition between children who were assigned to watch the DVD and a control group. (See pictures of kids' books coming to life...
...piano, fridge and chair. Parents were asked to evaluate how many of these words their babies understood and how many they could speak, while toddlers were tested separately for their recognition of pictures associated with the target words. Each of the 96 infants and their parents were followed for six weeks, and were evaluated four times in that period. While all the kids added new words to their vocabulary over the course of the study, watching Baby Wordsworth had no added benefit. (See the top 10 children's books...
...played Wagner before, and last time was a pretty close game, but we knew exactly how they played,” said Purcell, who was one of six Crimson players to score. “We went into it with the mindset of we know we should be able to beat them, and we’ll just play our game, and the outcome should be as we want...
...sure, pay attention to how President Obama navigates the rest of this year and gauge what happens in the congressional contests this November. But remember, too, that governors or former governors have won the White House in six of the past eight elections, and starting in 2011, there will be a hungry herd of Republican governors with presidential-level aspirations - and the qualifications to win the race...
...million the UNDP has so far garnered in donations and pledges for the project, which is why the agency has been bringing celebrities like Angelina Jolie and recent American Idol winners to Haiti to promote it. Participants, who have to be at least 18 years old, work six-hour shifts each day for two weeks; only one worker per family is allowed and that family has to have been affected in some way (a death, a destroyed house) by the earthquake. (See pictures of UNICEF's child registry in Haiti...