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Myself and a number of colleagues around the word study infant development, the natural course of development before formal education has had the chance to step in. We're interested in to what extent is stuff built in, and to what extent culture and the environment play a role. What's been remarkable is how, over the past twenty years, our understanding has grown that babies have surprising capacities to interpret the world and make inferences about what they think is going on, in the physical world, about the nature of objects. They're doing all this kind of stuff...
There was some disgust and disappointment on display in Kirkland JCR when it became evident that Brangelina would be flaking on the 80-odd assembled Harvard undergrads (and a few more looking in the windows). Word on the street is Angelina’s doing some filming out on Long Island, and couldn’t make it up for the event. So instead, the students patiently absorbed Haven’s words of worldly wisdom concerning positive action (yada yada), marveled at his erudite quotations from sources as varied as Mother Teresa and Frederick Douglass, and eagerly clung...
...virtually all sports, a shutout is an unsettling term. Most talented, winning teams aren’t on the losing end when this word is being uttered in game recaps...
...many cases, the collectors don't say a word to their targets but instead simply follow them down the street or sit at a neighboring table in a restaurant. "We don't think of it as humiliation so much as making something public," says Miguel González of the Cobradores del Monasterio, whose agents wear monks' habits. "It's the same as with pedophiles whose names are published so that others will know...
...narrow, windswept spur, the Mandelas' immediate neighbors are outspoken about their disillusionment with the ANC. "My life was better during apartheid," says Vincent Ntswayi, 53, who held a steady job in Johannesburg during white rule but has only been intermittently employed since. "Freedom turned out to be just a word. Real freedom, real power, that comes from money - and I haven't got any money...