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Berns and his colleagues recruited 91 kids ages 12 to 18 and asked them to fill out a questionnaire about their tendency to engage in behaviors such as driving without a license, having unprotected sex and using drugs. Then they had the kids undergo a relatively new kind of brain scan called diffusion tensor imaging, a type of magnetic resonance imaging that is used to look at dense tissues like white matter. After analyzing the scans, the authors found a strong correlation between how risky the students described their behavior to be and how sophisticated their white matter...
...over the coming decades and avert the worst of global warming. But that won't be enough - global warming is already taking hold, and already affecting people on the ground, around the world. We'll need to change and adapt - and we won't be able to do that without information...
...that type of thing only happens in America.” Though Indians of diverse religious beliefs are widely represented in India’s governing structures, the general population’s interactions are often severely restricted by religion. One can work with Hindus for weeks on end without working with a Muslim, and vice versa. Similarly, socioeconomic mobility, especially in the social world, is still significantly limited. The idea of something as egalitarian as public golf courses was fascinating to the populace of Mumbai, a city that has only three golf courses, all of which are extremely exclusive...
...first year in office, if not his presidency. After all, the time was ripe: President Obama had campaigned hard on health-care reform and now had a mandate. The public seemed to understand that reform was not just a matter of extending care to the growing millions of Americans without it, but also a matter of harnessing out-of-control costs. Despite the best efforts of Fox News, a New York Times/CBS poll in June revealed not only that a large majority of Americans were in favor of fundamentally changing or rebuilding our health-care system, but also that...
...committee should look beyond categories so narrowly defined and provide all students with the opportunity to stay on campus and be productive. An obvious start would be to allow all thesis writers—with or without a compelling research need—to stay on campus in order to write and research without the distractions that forcing them to be at home may entail. The College should generally take a more accommodating stance in their review of submitted applications and provide students with more options. We agree that it is important that students have a reason to stay...