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...grouped platform. Since then, as potential 2012 primary rivals like Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee took Fox News gigs and stayed in the public eye, Romney has quietly receded from the spotlight. But his new book, No Apology: The Case for American Greatness, leaves little doubt that he's spent the time away rebooting his message in preparation for an Oval Office bid. In No Apology, which hit stores March 2 and dovetails with a two-month publicity blitz, the former Massachusetts governor drops the social conservative shtick, preferring to focus on his managerial bona fides and the Obama Administration...
Another reason videos inhibit word-learning may simply be that they replace precious parent-child time that could be spent learning the same words. If babies are watching a DVD, they are not engaging or communicating with their parents. In Richert's study, her team found that the most learning occurred when parents directly taught children new words by pointing at an object, saying its name and repeating it. In the final session in the lab, the researchers observed parents and their youngsters as they watched Baby Wordsworth together; the children's ability to learn words in these situations...
...physics seems a bit arcane, consider that you probably spent much of the past two weeks seeing the angular-momentum principle in action - at least if you watched the Olympics. Earthquakes change the Earth's rotation the same way a twirling figure skater changes hers - by extending or tucking her arms in, for instance, to slow down or speed up accordingly. The only difference is that the skater does so decidedly more elegantly...
With its new 32-second YouTube video, the Senior Gift Committee has begun the yearly effort to convince seniors to give to Harvard. But looking at the video, we think that Hamilton could have been better spent on increasing the teaser’s production values...
President Alvaro Uribe of Colombia has been Washington's most fervent ally in a region where leftist leaders like Venezuela's Hugo Chávez have been flexing their muscles and speaking their minds out loud. First elected in 2002, Uribe spent an ironfisted four-year term re-establishing order in a country devastated by leftist rebels, paramilitary groups and drug gangs, winning the respect of much of the populace - enough so that the constitution was amended to allow him a second term. But he wanted a third term and, with approval ratings at about 70% throughout 2009, seemed...