Word: younger
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Growing up, I always thought, "Someday I will be able to turn decades and decades of personal pain into professional gain." I feel like I almost have to apologize for writing a book this young, but secretly, it's a serious book about depression. When I was younger, I read a lot of David Sedaris, and it made me feel like if this guy could go through all this crazy stuff and come out a great writer, then maybe I could too. So that was my goal: to be a less gay David Sedaris...
...found that after five weeks of computerized training on tasks ranging from reproducing a series of light flashes to repeating digits in the opposite order that they were given, the older group was able to reach the same level of working memory, attention and reaction time that the younger group had at the outset. (Notably, the younger group had even greater improvements by the end of the training period.) "The program is always pushing them to do better," says Westerberg, who notes that an advantage of video-game training is that the programs' difficulty level continually adjusts upward to match...
...more complicated than I thought when I was an assistant professor," and that while part of him will never forgive McNamara for the consequences of his mistakes in Vietnam, McNamara has also earned his respect by trying "to come to terms with his actions and to help a younger generation to learn...
Best known as the longtime sidekick to Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show, Ed McMahon died June 23 at 86. For younger viewers, memories of McMahon may be as much from his American Family Publishers career as from his nearly 30-year tenure at Tonight. But one has to appreciate what McMahon did for TV by so wholly coming to own the role of the host's foil...
...colleagues identified what they call the "young mum" factor. Sheep, unlike many other mammals, tend to have offspring quite early in life - mothers can have lambs at one-year-old, before they're fully grown. Since the size of the lambs is limited by the size of the mothers, younger mothers have smaller babies. Thanks to the milder winters, more sheep are able to survive that difficult first year and have lambs, which means there are more small lambs being born, bringing down the flock's average size - and causing the shrinking of the Soay sheep. "Those lambs had been...