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...initial analysis, Schmidt found that babies who spent more time in front of the TV performed worse on language and motor-skill tests at age 3 than those who watched less. But once Schmidt and her team controlled for other factors - the mother's educational status and household income - the relationship between TV-viewing and cognitive development disappeared. That means that TV-viewing alone did not appear to influence babies' brain development; a parent's education and finances mattered more. "Initially it looked like TV-viewing was associated with cognitive development," says Schmidt, "but in fact TV-viewing...
...Marie Evans Schmidt, a research associate at the Center on Media & Child Health at Children's Hospital Boston, studied more than 800 youngsters from birth to 3 years, recording the time they spent watching television or DVDs as reported by their mothers, as well as their performance on language and motor-skill tests. On average, the babies spent 1.2 hr. per day watching TV during their first two years of life, slightly less than the average viewing time reported in previous studies...
...game’s early stages, the Crimson didn’t play like the heavily-favored ECAC regular-season champion it is. In fact, it was the eighth-seeded Big Red who controlled the first 40 minutes of play.The Cornell offense, led by sophomore standout Rebecca Johnston, spent much of the first and second period pressuring the Harvard zone, and its in-your-face play frustrated the Crimson.“I think we had to work really hard for our chances,” Stone said. “They were playing pretty physical...
...major change in the Defense Department’s procurement policy. The selection of Dr. Carter is especially wise given the acute economic crisis. In January, President Obama inherited an inefficient national-security apparatus that has become accustomed to bloated budgets and continual cost overruns; last year, the Pentagon spent $104.3 billion on weapons procurement alone. This staggering sum, however, represented less than one-fifth of the Defense Department’s total budget of more than $515 billion. Since President Obama has made cutting the massive federal deficit a major priority of his administration, a modest reduction in defense...
...which would have been the program’s third round of seed grants, has been postponed to February of next year. When it resumes accepting grant applications, the committee intends to maintain the level of funding awarded—up to $75,000 for each project to be spent over one year...