Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Accentuate the positive, advises Jennifer Richard Jacobson, author of How Is My First Grader Doing in School? "Say, 'Look at all you learned!'" Even if the grades are poor, parents can ask, "What do you think you've done well? What are you proud of?" says Jacobson. Then ask, "What are you finding hard? Where are you having trouble...
...University of Waterloo in Ontario, "borders are less and less barriers and more and more invitations." Those who accept may find they learn as much from living in a new country as they do in their classes. Attending a foreign school, suggests Todd Makurath, "teaches you to think not just in terms of your city or even country but to look at the world as a whole. It's the ultimate learning experience." Nefra Faltas agrees: "My whole world," she says, "seems so much larger...
Daly and Wilson's findings win support from many experts. "I think it's pioneering work," says Stephen Emlen, a professor of behavioral ecology at Cornell. And the picture is not bleak, he says. "The evolutionary approach is basically saying we carry with us some genetically influenced tendencies to behave in certain ways in certain situations. It by no means says these cannot be overcome." Emlen compares this with discovering that you are carrying a gene that statistically increases your potential to develop a disorder. "Being armed with that knowledge can be very, very empowering. You're consciously going...
...clean things up for family consumption. Since tabloid-type stories now crop up so frequently in mainstream print and on TV, Pecker wants the real tabloids to get more respect--and a bigger share of the action. "Right now only 8% of our revenue is advertising," he says. "I think there's an opportunity to get it up to 15% to 20%." To lure upscale advertisers, Pecker has swallowed a weekly loss of $100,000 by banning those blurbs hawking psychic healers, herbal remedies and the like in the Enquirer and the Star...
...Maid of Orleans has always been played as an innocent speaking truth to corrupt power. In this version of the story, Milla Jovovich goes a step further and plays her as God-addled--all heat, energy and passion, a teenager who doesn't begin to think calmly until it's too late. This makes for a lively, nutty film, one full of clumsy, clanging battles filmed by the gifted, eccentric Besson (La Femme Nikita) with bloody brio. Besson is less confident of his genius with the court intrigues that bring Joan down, but that's where all the good actors...