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...Ursula Caberta, head of the Hamburg Interior Ministry's Scientology Task Force and one of the consultants of the ARD network's film, says she doesn't see the harm in scrutinizing the group's practices through film. "I keep waiting for a big Hollywood picture on the topic," she says. It's probably safe to say that Cruise won't be starring in that vehicle - unless it paints Scientology in the proper light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Germany, Scientology Outrage Over a Critical Film | 3/24/2010 | See Source »

...sense, it’s an easier task for a quirky half-hour comedy like “Modern Family” to fulfill its potential than for “Parenthood,” a longer and more dramatic program with lofty ambitions...

Author: By Molly O. Fitzpatrick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nurturing Twins on Primetime TV | 3/23/2010 | See Source »

...dose of THP reverses the learning deficit. "We are suggesting that mild stress is advantageous to learning in adolescence," she says. (Smith's current study involved only female mice; she plans to look next at males and females to see if there are gender differences on the learning task...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Puberty Make You Stupid? Lessons from Mice | 3/22/2010 | See Source »

...also points to an intriguing 2002 study by San Diego State psychologist Robert McGivern that showed that certain cognitive processes become temporarily less efficient at puberty. McGivern and his associates timed 300 subjects, ages 10 to 22, as they did a very simple set of matching tasks involving pictures of facial expressions and words describing them (happy, angry, sad). The study found that around the onset of puberty (about age 11 for girls and 12 for boys), people take significantly longer to do this easy task. McGivern and his associates attributed the slow pace to the excess number of synapses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Puberty Make You Stupid? Lessons from Mice | 3/22/2010 | See Source »

...pleasure boaters were warned not to touch the water - and for good reason. Recent testing revealed the presence of heavy metals and pesticides, along with cancer-causing PCBs, concentrated in sediment at the bottom of the canal. The magnitude of the cleanup task seemed to call out for federal intervention. The EPA says its plan will take up to 12 years; the city's more modest plan was judged inadequate by federal officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard from Brooklyn | 3/22/2010 | See Source »

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