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...years or so they have been largely set aside by a new generation of "nativist" psychologists and cognitive scientists whose more sophisticated experiments led them to theorize that infants arrive already equipped with some knowledge of the physical world and even rudimentary programming for math and language. Babylab director Sylvain Sirois has been putting these smart-baby theories through a rigorous set of tests. His conclusions so far tend to be more Piagetian: "Babies," he says, "know squat...
...contained several no-fooling hard-core sex scenes. But John Cameron Mitchell's movie brims with so much fun and heartbreak that it upset few people and beguiled many. The densest concentration of film talent this year - 21 directors, including Alfonso Cuarón, Alexander Payne, Walter Salles, Sylvain Chomet and Tom Tykwer - collaborated on Paris, Je T'aime, an omnibus movie of short segments, each set in a different Paris neighborhood. This sort of enterprise can invite directorial indifference, but at least half of the episodes are charming or poignant, with a lovely, lingering aftertaste. Special mention to Joel...
...mama tambien, Bend It Like Beckham, Irma Vep, The Motorcycle Diaries, The Triplets of Belleville and Run, Lola, Run? (For those of you who don't frequent art houses, we speak of Joel and Ethan Coen, Alexander Payne, Wes Craven, Alfonso Cuaron, Gurinder Chadha, Olivier Assayas, Walter Salles, Sylvain Chomet and Tom Tykwer.) Wouldn't it to lovely to bathe briefly in the radiance of Fanny Ardant, Juliette Binoche, Steve Buscemi, Sergio Castellito, Willem Dafoe, Ben Gazzara, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Bob Hoskins, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Emily Mortimer, Nick Nolte, Natalie Portman, Miranda Richardson, Gena Rowlands, Ludivine Sagnier, Rufus Sewell and Leonor...
...There will be some action continuing on, but nothing like before," explained Sylvain, a 24-year-old Sorbonne student of history, who asked that his last name not be used. "We have to keep some pressure on, because we're still against some of the reforms they've passed before. That said, I sort of doubt they'll try anything like this between now and the elections in a year." In other words, France's political elite has learned their lesson, the hard...
...nearly closing the wage gap with construction, an industry fueled by the housing boom. And drivers can spend those weekends chugging alongside the Rockies. How can trucking help erase that stigma? "You can't go honking at people in four-wheelers," says Earl Sylvain, 69, a former high school teacher who has spent his retirement driving trucks. "Why would you curse at them? They're the ones using the stuff we're shipping. I wish more drivers would understand that without them, we wouldn't have...