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...many insights about the effects of aging and the development of Alzheimer's disease and dementia. And yet it was not in the Nun study's core data that its director, Dr. David Snowdon, first discovered a fascinating correlation between the sisters' language skills, based on essays they had written in their 20s when they first entered the convent (Snowdon discovered the essays in the convent's archives), and the likelihood that they would develop Alzheimer's later in life. The correlation was striking: the young women who had more sophisticated language skills - defined as the density of ideas...
...fascinating 1990s experiment demonstrating this effect - called cognitive dissonance in official terms - a team including psychologist Joel Cooper of Princeton asked participants to write hard-hearted essays opposing funding for the disabled. When these participants were later told they were compassionate, they felt even worse about what they had written. (See how to prevent illness...
...Indeed, notable achievements have been attained during its 34 years. With no topic off limits, areas of mutual interest such as the economy, energy, environment, foreign affairs, health, labor, terrorism and trade tend to get discussed. And these discussions, in turn, get written about in the press, sparking conversation among like-minded people around the world. Look past those quintessential G-8 buzzwords like "consultation," "global social integration," and "millennium development goals" and you can see that, in recent years, the summit has given eventual rise to debt forgiveness for poor countries, a significant aid package for Africa...
...morning brief. There had been an incident in which civilians were killed when soldiers ordered a strike on a compound from which they were receiving fire. In the brief you ordered your commanders to "stop dropping compounds." Can you tell me more about this? What we have done is written a tactical directive. And it provides my intent on how we are going to execute operations in general [to be released soon]. But specifically, the use of deadly force. The reason I spent a lot of time personally writing that intent is because I wanted to make sure that before...
...this? Because I believe that I must thank the people I work with, and I think if you write a handwritten note - that I took the time to sit down and write - if I typed it, people may think that I may have dictated it or written 50 of the same and just signed it. And I also find that if I hand-write it, it also makes me stop and think - think about the casualties. It makes me think about everyone...