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...known as La Aleta, a U.S.-Dominican team has made what may be an even more important discovery: a 240-ft.-deep Taino cenote, or ceremonial well, where hundreds of objects thrown in as offerings have been preserved in the oxygen-poor water. Preliminary explorations of the surrounding forest suggest that the well was just one component of a ceremonial center that covered at least 10 acres...
...seen as the macro to Edith Stein's micro. Devout and ascetic in life, long a favorite of the church's conservative branch, the wartime Pontiff has been sharply criticized both by Jewish leaders and church liberals for his refusal to publicly condemn the Nazis, a "silence" that some suggest may have cost untold Jewish lives. Pius' defenders reply heatedly that his efforts to hide Jews in Italy and elsewhere saved thousands. More important, they insist that silence was the best policy--and here Pius' story intersects Stein's. According to Gumpel, Pius was about to issue his own four...
...black-and-white toys purported to stimulate neurological development. Musical crib mobiles playing Beethoven were suddenly the rage. Even videos claiming to help prepare four-month-olds for reading appeared on the market. The new data about the complex brain-wiring process that begins right after birth seemed to suggest that simply cooing and cuddling with Baby was not sufficient...
...diffuse and unsystematic, and the samples in the projects described are very small. When TIME asked Gardner what evidence there was that MI has improved achievement in schools, there was a long pause before he answered, "The testimonials and figures are numerous enough from lots of different places to suggest it's worth taking seriously." (One such testimonial could come from Coyote Creek, which scores above the district average on standardized tests.) Gardner was saying there is plenty of anecdotal evidence in support of MI but no formal studies. This is not an irredeemable flaw, and others agree with Gardner...
...Half grown/ His small feet black as matchheads." Here is a bush fire that consumed much of her property in Wooroloo: "It began with a small red spot/ That flowered in the floorboards,/ Its anemone danced, and the music/ Was the crack of wood applauding." Such moments suggest that poets can be born as well as made...