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...order to make up for their feared lapses, parents indeed started buying the approved kinds of music - and a whole lot more. A study conducted by Zero to Three, a nonprofit research group, found that almost 80% of parents with a high school education or less were assiduously using flash cards, television and computer games to try to keep their babies' minds engaged...
...greatest sources of misunderstanding surrounds the so-called Mozart effect. For years researchers have found that playing background music can improve the spatial skills of listeners, causing many laymen to conclude that creative skills can be boosted too. Last year Harvard University released a study called Project Zero that analyzed 50 years of research on this idea. The studies showed that college students who had listened to music performed better on paper-and-pencil spatial tests, but the effect lasted no more than 15 minutes and then faded away. There was no evidence that the listening improved brain power...
Stunning visuals, nifty gadgets, cool-as-ice heroes and villains combine in a movie with tremendous style and zero substance. Skyline Cruisers shows clearly that Hong Kong cinema has what it takes to compete with its big-budget Hollywood brethren...
...incentives that it hopes will pull the nation back onto its feet. De la Rua also appointed Domingo Cavallo, a renowned free-marketeer, as his latest Finance Minister, with sweeping powers to dictate economic changes without legislative approval. One of Cavallo's proposed rescue measures would have slashed to zero the 14 percent Mercosur tariff that Argentina currently charges on capital goods from outside the trading bloc. Brazilian officials, at first sympathetic, erupted after reading the fine print, which included tariffs on imported cell phones, computer printers and high-technology items, all among Brazil's most lucrative exports...
...basis-point cut in the federal funds rate, he was worried about the economy and only the economy. Advancing unemployment. Declining retail sales, housing starts, and consumer confidence. An economy that wasn't in recession yet, as far as anybody knew, but that was bouncing around near zero growth and definitely in danger of getting dragged below sea level by increasingly pessimistic consumers...