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...wifely and motherly martyrdom (Hannah Nixon's or Rebekah Johnson's, for example) also recede. It can only be a good thing for women - right? - when they are not called upon to be saints in the old style of forbearance and abnegation, asked to lead a life that would wither a woman like Rebekah Johnson and leave her more embittered than her children, the once-a-year sentimentalists, would know...
...busy from birth laying complex webs of neurons that help it grow more sophisticated each day. It takes anywhere from a year to five years, depending on the part of the brain, for this initial explosion of connections to be made, after which many of them shut down and wither away, as the brain decides which it will keep, which new ones it will need and which it can do without. During this period, it's important that babies get the right kinds of stimulation so their brains can make the right decisions. The right kinds of stimulation, however...
...busy from birth laying complex webs of neurons that help it grow more sophisticated each day. It takes anywhere from a year to five years, depending on the part of the brain, for this initial explosion of connections to be made, after which many of them shut down and wither away, as the brain decides which it will keep, which new ones it will need and which it can do without. During this period, it's important that babies get the right kinds of stimulation so their brains can make the right decisions. The right kinds of stimulation, however...
...course, the ultimate goal of secondary education in America should be a system of public schools that would all provide a strong level of education and therefore evaluate students on a roughly comparable scale. In such an environment, the SAT would wither away; until then, its widespread use should not obscure its faults...
...sales wither and dotcoms disappear, handheld-computer makers are enjoying a rather solitary spring fling. Just look at the flurry of new-product announcements in the past few weeks. From Handspring's razor-thin Visor Edge to a new memory-packed Compaq iPaq, a major upgrade has been trumpeted by nearly every PDA maker. Here's why: last year nearly 10 million PDAs were sold worldwide, almost double the number for 1999, according to research firm Gartner Dataquest. By 2004, the firm anticipates that everyone from executives to hairdressers will buy some 33 million PDAs, generating nearly $8 billion...