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So what happens as the economy rebounds and companies start to pull themselves together? Once firms are in better shape and the recovery instills confidence in businesses to start investing again, will they be able to go back to banks and start borrowing?
Sophisticated brain-scan studies by Jay Giedd at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) have shown dramatic changes throughout the teenage years as excess gray matter is pruned from the prefrontal cortex - the seat of higher-order thinking and making judgments (like not smoking weed right before your chemistry...
In an interview, McGivern said he thought an apparent drop-off in the ability to learn new things at puberty might merely reflect the fact that teenagers are becoming more attuned to social issues than dull learning tasks: "It may be a shift in what we pay attention to and...
Until the late 1970s, vendors of all stripes tramped Tokyo's streets, armed with goods and a gimmick. The caramel-candy man told tales; the frog-oil man rapped; the herb seller dressed like a hermit. Most are now gone, replaced by 24-hour convenience stores and complex vending machines...
Local authorities insist that the Bedouin are not discriminated against, that those in prison are there on legitimate criminal charges, and that despite what many Bedouin and rights groups say, Bedouin can serve in the police and military. Abdallah Jahama, a Bedouin council member who had served as a Member...