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...Parents might find it easier to believe all this if it weren't for the increasingly fashionable theory of windows of opportunity for learning - the idea that there are comparatively narrow periods when various parts of the brain can be taught various types of skills. What gives the theory special weight is that there is, in fact, a little truth to it - but only very little. When it comes to language - perhaps the most nuanced skill a person can master - the brain does appear to have fertile and less fertile periods. At birth, babies have the potential to learn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Quest For A Superkid | 4/22/2001 | See Source »

...spite of the Big Green's national ranking, the Crimson has all the tools necessary to win its first Ivy game today. What has hurt Harvard this season is not a lack of skill but a lack of concentration against teams it could easily defeat...

Author: By Jessica T. Lee and Cathy Tran, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: W. Lacrosse Faces No. 10 Dartmouth | 4/18/2001 | See Source »

...proposal would allow college athletes to charge fees for skill lessons given in the student's sport, while the other would permit student-athletes competing in the Olympics to receive money based on place finish through the Operation Gold Grant fund administered by the U.S. Olympic Committee...

Author: By Imtiyaz H. Delawala, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NCAA Likely To Ease Rules On Athlete Earnings | 4/16/2001 | See Source »

President Neil L. Rudenstine has made fundraising for Harvard the single greatest accomplishment of his term. Yet in the final days of his tenure, now that Harvard’s capital campaign is complete, he has turned his formidable skill and clout in fundraising to a new end: the Centennial Campaign of the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dollars for Service | 4/12/2001 | See Source »

Will sophomore Dominic Moore be a Hobey candidate his senior year? What if freshman Tyler Kolarik converts just half of the magnificent scoring chances his speed and skill generated in his first campaign? How good will Kenny Smith be in three years? How about the three monsters Mazzoleni recruited to join the blueline next year...

Author: By Michael R. Volonino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The V-Spot | 4/12/2001 | See Source »

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