Word: younger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mutation caused younger cells to stop and not pass the older neurons. A gradient of increasingly older neurons toward the outside of the cortex resulted, which, according to Tsai, "effectively inverted the pecking order of the cortex...
Girl X was like a lot of young kids in her neighborhood. Relatives say the nine-year-old liked to play, skate and tutor younger students. Her favorite subjects at school were math and English. And she would frequently go up and down the stairs to visit her grandmother, Zater Bolhar, who lived just a few floors away in the same apartment building. But Girl X's neighborhood is the partially vacant Cabrini-Green housing project on Chicago's near North Side, and the child's current anonymity is an apt symbol for the forgotten lives--and forgotten crimes...
...should strive to give our children a wide variety of experiences rather than depend on artificial delivery systems. That is why learning in the real world is so powerful for young children, and computers, which merely deliver a "virtual" experience, may be appropriate for older students but not younger ones. WILLIAM L. RUKEYSER Woodland, California...
...Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation and associate professor of neurology, said the Foundation chose Sinbad both for his "wholesome comedy" and his work in promoting science and math among younger students...
Some athletes, particularly those on larger teams that have multiple "units" or "lines," talk all the time about academics. Younger players often ask upperclassmen about good classes or easy cores. They also occasionally help out with classes they have taken in the past...