Word: soundness
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...with it. I pretty much beat the crap out of it. There are times when I'm under the weather and the corporate machine tries to put me in the recording booth anyway. It's always up to me to say, "Guys, listen to me, listen to what I sound like. I'm not myself...
...found that teenagers have less activity in this region than adults do. "If adolescents have a motivational deficit, it may mean that they are prone to engaging in behaviors that have either a really high excitement factor or a really low effort factor, or a combination of both." Sound familiar? Bjork believes his work may hold valuable lessons for parents and society. "When presenting suggestions, anything parents can do to emphasize more immediate payoffs will be more effective," he says. To persuade a teen to quit drinking, for example, he suggests stressing something immediate and tangible - the danger of getting...
...with Jim Lehrer (and its previous incarnations) has been a staple on PBS since 1975. "Objectivity is almost impossible. Fairness is never impossible," Lehrer said in a speech at Brown University. "And all that people have a right to expect is that they will be treated fairly." It may sound like hairsplitting, but this belief - that in their work, journalists must actively conquer their own views to promote public debate - has made his show a haven of reasoned discourse amid the cacophony of cable news...
...final piece of advice, valuable to both Obama and McCain: Never forget you're on camera. McMahon says he used to tell Dean to prepare for new debates by watching tapes of old ones with the sound off, because viewers judge performance as much by visual cues as by verbal ones. "You have to remember that how you look and how commanding you appear is often more important than what you say," says McMahon. "And don't forget the cutaways. When your opponent is answering, you tend to think you're off camera. But you're not. If you scowl...
...Obama's Infrastructure Bank illustrates two other principles that could work to the next President's advantage. First, at a cost of $6 billion per year, it is less than 1/100th the size of the proposed financial bailout - a lot of programs that used to sound big seem like peanuts now. Second, it is a program that would create jobs and strengthen the economy. The next President will have to argue that any new policy program will be an investment in economic growth. Given the budgetary realities, it will be easier to get money through Congress for energy programs that...