Serious reading takes a hit from online scanning and skimming, researchers say - The Washington Post
Researchers say that the differences between text and screen reading should be studied more thoroughly and that the differences should be dealt with in education, particularly with school-aged children. But spurred by the emergence of Egyptian hieroglyphics, the Phoenician alphabet, Chinese paper and, finally, the Gutenberg press, the brain has adapted to read
In 1853, the Rockefeller family moved to the Cleveland, Ohio, area, where John attended high school then briefly studied bookkeeping at a commercial college. Rockefeller: Standard Oil In 1865, Rockefeller borrowed money to buy out some of his partners and take control of the refinery, which had become the largest in Cleveland
JIM ROGERS BLOG
http://jimrogers1.blogspot.com/Jim Rogers: Greece and China are scaring people ET Now: How about a correction that we are seeing for the last couple of days? Jim Rogers : What it means is that Greece and China are s... Jim Rogers still Bullish on China Time to Buy Chinese Stocks ET Now: For the longest time I have interacted with you, you have always advocated that you should buy fear and sell greed
Public Policy and Mental Illnesses: Jimmy Carter's Presidential Commission on Mental Health
The twenty commissioners came from diverse backgrounds, and their interests revolved around the mental health of minorities and underserved groups rather than the specific needs of persons with severe and persistent mental illnesses. Bureaucratic rivalries within and between governments; tensions and rivalries within the mental health professions; identity and interest group politics; the difficulties of distinguishing the respective etiological roles of such elements as poverty, racism, stigmatization, and unemployment; and an illusory faith in prevention all influenced the commission's deliberations and subsequent enactment of the short-lived Mental Health Systems Act
Just Write It! - The New Yorker
He writes a lively blog, and though he has an assistant, Ty Franck, who screens the multitude of comments that are posted on it, he tries to read many of them himself. The Brotherhood quests are a gentler version of a fraternity hazing, providing people who have in common only a particular literary taste with the shared experiences that turn them into pals
Family Sues Online 'Troll' After Son's...A Fairfax County family says a Richmond-area man coordinated online hoaxes that included accusing their son of child rape and posting death threats in their son's name. Teen Accused in Fatal Stabbing of 2 to Be Charged...The 15-year-old boy accused of stabbing two men to death during an altercation outside a Fredericksburg restaurant last month will be tried as an adult
His drawings captured the spirit and energy of the new nation during a period of enormous growth and optimism and the literal transformation of the American landscape during the first decades of the Industrial Revolution. on the evening of August 24, 1814, British troops under the command of General Robert Ross marched into Washington, D.C., after routing hastily assembled American forces at Bladensburg, Maryland, earlier in the day
A generation earlier, in 1841, a slave named Madison Washington, who had escaped to Canada but was recaptured returning to free his wife, led a successful slave revolt aboard the Creole, a ship carrying slaves from Virginia to Louisiana. Growing up black in Washington, Edwin Washington, a retired Boeing computer analyst now living in the Maryland suburbs, was no stranger to other black Washingtons
First, there are social demands on individuals to remember; for instance, researchers exert some pressure on participants in a study to come up with memories. In another study, along with true events Hyman presented different false events, such as accidentally spilling a bowl of punch on the parents of the bride at a wedding reception or having to evacuate a grocery store when the overhead sprinkler systems erroneously activated
Let's hope Carell got the memo and will continue to be the rare male star who mostly sticks to love interests in their forties (as his new screen paramour Kristen Wiig will be when Anchorman 2 comes out this winter). (That's apparently his sweet spot, as Angelina Jolie would later be able to attest.) The rest of his romantic history runs the gamut, though Pitt did once take a screen-wife his own age: Mary-Louise Parker, who only got a handful of lines in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The newly buttoned-down businessman also moved into a garage apartment that he shared with Ensenat off Houston's North Boulevard, an old 1920s neighborhood close to downtown. He was required to wear a coat and tie and dispatched around the country and even to Central America, looking for plant nurseries that Stratford might acquire
AGE OF AUTISM
Approximately a third of those on the spectrum are non-verbal; another third or so (my son falls into this category) are semi-verbal (some language, but not really able to write or hold a conversation). When food production turned from businesses to corporations, small groups of people got very rich and more deeply able to control both the production of food and its distribution
George Orwell's "Animal Farm" - Vocabulary List : Vocabulary.com
receive get something; come into possession of The animals would still assemble on Sunday mornings to salute the flag, sing 'Beasts of England', and receive their orders for the week; but there would be no more debates. oppose be against But it was noticed that these two were never in agreement: whatever suggestion either of them made, the other could be counted on to oppose it
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