Word: switches
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Many studies, for example, fail to distinguish among degrees of spanking (a swat on the bottom is very different from 10 lashes with a switch). Furthermore, the problems some kids who are spanked have in later life might have to do more with their personalities--the behaviors that got them spanked in the first place--than with the punishment. New research indicates that when it is not lumped together with serious, abusive forms of corporal punishment, spanking doesn't look so bad. In a longitudinal study of 168 white, middle-class families, Diana Baumrind and Elizabeth Owens, psychologists...
...noticed is something that most gamers have long ago forgotten: to nongamers, video games are really hard. Like hard as in homework. The standard video-game controller is a kind of Siamese-twin affair, two joysticks fused together and studded with buttons, two triggers and a four-way toggle switch called a d-pad. In a game like Halo, players have to manipulate both joysticks simultaneously while working both triggers and pounding half a dozen buttons at the same time. The learning curve is steep...
...future, career, and interests. Although this system will force students to start thinking about these critical choices early on, it is absurd to assert that a 14-year-old is prepared to make this decision. Indeed, many college students and adults have difficulty making such decisions and switch between fields repeatedly before finding their true calling...
...very good tagging functionality and allows for a number of different things that will make searching a lot easier.”Hal Roberts, the project manager for the new server, agreed that “performance and stability” were key reasons behind the switch.“We wanted people to be able to rely on it, for it to be up all the time,” he said. “That’s the first stage and, moving forward from that, we look forward to adding the more exciting features...
...Tomasky, like the rest of the Framers, largely ignores policy. Although he admits that policies must play a role in shaping the Democratic Party, he argues that “voters don’t, and should not be expected to, respond to policies.” If the switch in public discourse away from the common good wasn’t entirely the product of Democratic decisions, a return to the common good may not be a simple matter of choice. Even if Democrats could return to the political climate of 1960, they would still have a serious problem...