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...results, published on Monday in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, are in line with several other studies. In fact, past analyses have found that infants who watch educational DVDs learn fewer words and score lower on certain cognitive tests by the time they reach preschool than kids who haven't watched the videos. These studies, however, were all observational - meaning that rather than assigning babies to watch videos or avoid them, scientists simply asked parents about their babies' viewing habits and then correlated that information with the kids' performance on tests of word acquisition and language skills later...
Jeffrey D. Sachs' article should be mandatory reading for all Americans. Brilliantly reasoned, beautifully written and tactfully presented, it is a powerful, balanced argument for regarding the T word--taxes--as one way out of this economic morass, not something to be avoided...
...house, there was always music. My father was also studying to be a theologian, and he had classes from time to time in the home. Other ministers would come in, and so we had to tone it down. That's what was going on in the house: the Word and a lot of music...
...Roger Ackroyd - and was deeply indebted to such early David Fincher films as The Game and Fight Club. The plot, set in the 1950s, is a festival of conspiracies involving Nazis, Soviets, lobotomizers, the CIA and LSD, plus some very crafty lunatics and an oddly convenient hurricane. Packed with word and number puzzles, like a Da Vinci Code with fewer chase scenes, Lehane's story was devised for the page, not the eye. Yet its psychological twists and the sense of emotional despair at its core were bound to attract moviemakers. It landed a big one: Martin Scorsese, fresh...
...death by fire. Quizzing the patients, he gets evidence that sounds like death threats: a man (Jackie Earle Haley, indelible in a fleeting role) tells Teddy there's a grand plot closing in on the marshal, that he's "the rat in a maze"; one woman scribbles the urgent word run on his notepad. His partner Chuck discounts the testimony, saying, "How're you gonna believe a crazy guy?" But Chuck too is under Teddy's suspicion; they'd never met before getting on the island ferry, where Chuck greeted him with a cheerful "Teddy Daniels, the man, the legend...