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...track TV-viewing and cognitive development in infants over time. Its results diverge from those of the other longitudinal study, conducted by Dr. Dimitri Christakis at Seattle Children's Research Institute, which found that DVD-viewing hindered toddlers' ability to learn vocabulary. In that study, with each additional hour spent in front of a screen, babies at 8 to 16 months learned six to eight fewer vocabulary words than infants who stayed away from videos. "We don't have any definitive answers yet as to what effects TV-viewing can have on infants with respect to cognitive outcomes," says Christakis...
...Much of Kim’s own education was spent within the Harvard community. Though he spent his undergraduate years at Brown, Kim went on to receive his medical degree from HMS and obtained a doctorate in anthropology from the University...
...report spent a little over three pages addressing the committee’s resolutions—which were included with the committee’s unanimous approval—and a little over seven pages discussing issues on which they had been unable to reach a conclusion...
...would make sense to make FiCom smaller, because it would give more reps the opportunity to work with advocacy and I think a lot of students run for the UC to be a part of the advocacy side of things,” said Flores, who spent her UC career in FiCom...
...Kevorkian, who devised a "suicide machine" to administer lethal doses of medication, spent seven years in prison for his efforts, emerging in 2007 at the age of 79. He claimed to have helped some 130 people commit suicide, but was locked up over one particular case of a 52-year-old man with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (also known as Lou Gehrig's disease) who Kevorkian helped commit suicide. Kevorkian videotaped the death and allowed it to be broadcast on 60 Minutes in a brazen violation of Michigan...