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...broken window in Quincy House, which has caused a chunk of the dining hall to be blocked off by caution tape for over a month, has now been repaired. However, we're still unsure what caused the damage...
Most students in the Quincy dining hall tonight speculated that the cold over J-Term had caused the window to crack, but some had more creative theories...
Pakistani military officers, politicians and diplomats say that Islamabad has a short window of opportunity to improve the lives of the frontier tribesmen. Otherwise, they will turn angrily against Islamabad and wave in the Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters who are now scattered in the mountains. "We need to bring in reforms swiftly," says Shah...
...entirely clear why the videos are so ineffective, but there may be two potential explanations. One has to do with the idea that such videos and DVDs overstimulate the brain. Researchers believe there is a critical window during early development in which language skills are acquired and developed; the sounds that babies hear and repeat in this time period are essential to establishing their language ability. And babies are better able to learn these sounds if they hear them from a live speaker (a parent) who engages with them directly and uses language in a repetitive, reinforcing way - where...
Emergency officials isolated the leak and opened a window for ventilation, causing a quick restoration to normal carbon monoxide levels...