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...that is so is still unclear, but Cabeza doesn't believe the brain is programmed to get stronger as it ages. Rather, he acknowledges, in many ways it gets weaker, with neurons processing information less efficiently. The bilateralization may be a trick the brain uses to compensate for the decline, sometimes integrating the hemispheres so efficiently that our thought and reasoning processes are actually better than they were before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Staying Sharp: The Surprising Power of the Aging Brain | 1/13/2006 | See Source »

...notes, give employees DO NOT INTERRUPT screens to put over their cubicles or establish quiet times when it's not permissible to bother a colleague. In some offices, she says, "workers wear colored hats to signify when they do and do not want to be interrupted." Another simple trick, suggests Spira, is to leave more explicit instructions on e-mail "away messages" and answering machines about how and when you prefer to be interrupted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Staying Sharp: Help! I've Lost My Focus | 1/10/2006 | See Source »

...They have tons of ideas, many of them bad. The trick is to evaluate them and mercilessly purge the bad ones. But even bad ideas can be useful. Darwin's notebooks, for example, show us that he went down many dead ends?like his theory of monads. These were tiny hypothetical life forms that sprang spontaneously from inanimate matter. If they died, they took with them all the species into which they had evolved. Darwin spent years refining this bizarre theory before ultimately rejecting it. But it was a critical link in the chain that led to his branching model...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hidden Secrets of the Creative Mind | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

...that there was a huge sympathy factor at play and that once emotions abated, Kadima could start to slide. The party is so new it doesn't even have procedures to select its candidates. Without Sharon, the disparate egos brought together largely by his winning aura could clash. The trick will be to prove in short order that Kadima is more than a one-man show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Troubled Soil | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

Harvard got 14 points, eight rebounds, a career-high eight assists, three blocks and three steals from Stehle, who nearly collected his first career triple-double. Sullivan said that Stehle is the one player on the team capable of turning the trick...Goffredo now leads the Crimson in scoring average, at 15.2 points a game...Harvard doubled up Dartmouth’s offensive output in the paint...

Author: By Caleb W. Peiffer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NOTEBOOK: Goffredo Shoots Way to Win | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

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