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...studies on race written by Business School Professor Michael I. Norton along with lead author Evan P. Apfelbaum, a PhD candidate at Tufts, and Samuel R. Sommers, an assistant professor at Tufts. “The impetus for the paper on children was trying to understand the extent that we see race yet ‘don’t,’” Apfelbaum said. “We know that infants as young as six months can discriminate between different races, yet children eventually come to the conclusion that using this principle to describe people based...
...poor Jane, she has to take care of her husband." But if the neighbor has a manic-depressive son, you're kind of mad at them because the kid misbehaves. Unless you're a very, very considerate neighbor that's gotten close to the family, you can't quite understand why Johnny can be such a mean little child, why he does dangerous things. Well, the mom next door gets pretty frustrated, she doesn't know what to do and pretty soon, Johnny's in jail...
...This was basic research,” Chalfie said. “Trying to understand fundamental processes that take place as organisms develop and how their various cells interact with one another—one can see what happens with those cells by asking questions about the fundamentals of biology...
...Other nation-states understand the consequences of not lending a hand. At the Assembly last week, China initialized programs to promote clean energy in Africa and Saudi Arabia committed $500 million to enroll 24 million children in primary school. The U.S. only pledged a paltry $61 million over five years, despite the fact that the interconnectedness and global character of all the present crises is becoming painfully apparent. Irony is everywhere. If you think the cash for a $700 billion dollar bailout is coming from taxpayers during an election year, think again: It’s coming from Beijing?...
...slow recovery from mental illness, and the importance of the Philadelphia Eagles football team to his personal relationships. But though Quick’s first novel is an engaging enough read, it is also a fluffy one. Despite the narrator’s professed desire to better understand himself, his world, and the people who populate it, Quick barely manages to flesh out the main character, let alone the secondary ones. Quick endows Pat with the voice and writing style of a seventh grader. Pat expresses himself in run-on sentences, and often uses grammatical constructions that one might find...