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...undergo rapid neural development from the last trimester in utero up through ages 1 to 2. Infants' brains expand quickly, then ruthlessly prune back brain cells - a process of orderly cell death, known as apoptosis. In an experiment in young rats undergoing this crucial stage of neural development, Christopher Turner, an assistant professor of neurobiology and anatomy at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, witnessed out-of-control apoptosis in the brains of rats treated with drugs that mimicked the action of the general anesthetic ketamine. Starved of calcium, whole portions of the rats' brains died off - enough to cause...
...material here than can be found in the books. For example, who knew that Remus Lupin collected gramophone records? Or that the company that makes pumpkin juice was among the sponsors of the Wizarding World Cup? The attention paid to the props themselves, from Hermione’s Time-Turner to a Golden Snitch, reveals the artistry that went into making every element of the movies...
...increasingly at odds with France and Germany, who are more skeptical about the benefits of unfettered capitalism and hope to win votes at home by controlling its excesses. But even among native English speakers, there's an intriguing debate taking place about the limits of finance, spearheaded by Adair Turner, the chairman of Britain's market regulator, the Financial Services Authority. To the dismay of some in the City of London, he is arguing forcefully that the financial sector in Britain has "swollen beyond its socially useful size...
...extent to which they would be able to leverage their balance sheets. They would also require banks to keep a portion of the loans they sell as asset-backed securities to ensure that they have a stake in what happens to those loans. Some regulators including Britain's Turner are calling for big financial institutions to have "living wills" that would enable their activities to be wound up in an orderly manner in the event they failed, thus avoiding the sort of panic caused by the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers a year...
Perhaps with the real Hermione Granger sitting on their side of the field, the Brown Bears could have borrowed her Time-Turner to reconsider their final play call. But in the muggle world, the Bears will have to live with their decision: down by only three points with under five seconds remaining and poised on the Harvard 25-yard line, Brown coach Phil Estes elected to keep his field goal unit on the sideline and take one last shot at the endzone...