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Child-development specialists point out that it is difficult to assess a small child's mental abilities, because they are constantly evolving. "It's simply a bad time to be testing," says David Elkind, professor of child study at Tufts University. A youngster who cannot recognize a square one week, he notes, may have mastered geometric shapes the next...
Lynn watches a youngster circle under a ball, stick his glove out and make the catch...
...Israeli youngster wearing a yarmulke, the traditional head cover of Jews, waved a red scarf at a helicopter hovering overhead as Arab ambulance attendants rushed the wounded into their vehicles...
...under his son's stewardship that the paper developed a liberal editorial voice and worked its way onto the short list of the country's best newspapers. Though Mary wrote some of the editorials, she did not always practice enlightened attitudes at home; infuriated after discovering that a black youngster had used the family swimming pool, she had the water drained. Intent on imbuing her children with proper manners and noblesse oblige, she ended up attempting to run their lives. Her husband, meanwhile, remained aloof from the children. As one son put it, "My father loves humanity in general...
...Massachusetts Institute of Technology, another computer is struggling to learn what any three-year-old child already knows: the difference between a cup and a saucer. What the youngster sees at a glance, the computer must be taught, painstakingly, one step at a time. First it must comprehend the concept of an object, a physical thing distinguished from the space around it by edges and surfaces. Then it must grasp the essential attributes of cupness: the handle, the leakproof central cavity, the stable base. Finally, it must deal with the exceptions, like the foam-plastic cup whose heat-insulating properties...