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...ability to pay attention - you can't deal with the lion trying to eat you, after all, if you don't focus on it first. And attention, in turn, plays a critical role in such complex functions as responding to environmental cues and smoothly switching your concentration from one task to another. Those are abilities kids with autism lack. (Read a TIME cover story on autism and vaccines...
...study, Lori Francis at Penn State University analyzed data collected on 1,000 children who participated in two different self-regulation tasks, one at age 3 and the other at age 5, and were followed until age 12. In the first task, designed to measure self-control, the 3-year-olds were left alone in a room with a bunch of toys - one of which was a known favorite - for 150 seconds. They were instructed to play with the other toys but not to touch the favored one. Children who were able to wait 75 seconds or longer before touching...
While recent Harvard Allston Task Force meetings have been dominated by heated discussions of the University’s vacant neighborhood properties, last night’s meeting took on a decidedly more subdued tone, with local residents cautiously praising the University for its progress in delivering community benefits over the past year...
...their defense, these academics are trying to cull universal lessons from particular cases, and a common vocabulary eases this task. The predictive ability that scientific methodology affords is also an asset. But some political scientists want to quantify the unquantifiable. No equation can capture the emotion essential to politics, and getting a feel for human nature from the study of history is more beneficial than tinkering with inherently flawed models...
...leaves the Obama Administration forced to cajole its East Asian allies to set aside their anger and get back on the diplomatic track with Pyongyang. Bosworth, upon his appointment to the special-envoy job earlier this year, said he was under "no illusions" as to how difficult the task would be. After yesterday, it's fair to conclude that he didn't know the half...