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...said Schlaug. “It is possible that note learning and playing from staff and understanding these visual symbols that these musicians have to do translate into other visual tasks.” The participants were recruited from public and music schools in the Boston area. They participated in three to four six-hour tests in the span of either three or four weeks. This investigation is a part of a larger, longitudinal study, funded by the National Science Foundation, that began about five years ago, to test the abilities of musical and non-musical children as they progressed...
...sang for us, and talked about how Vietnamese music is quite original.” According to Tran, the summit series was first organized last year by the Vietnamese student associations from Harvard, Yale, and Columbia, with a goal of establishing relationships between Vietnamese students in the New England area. While the first summit at Columbia only included students from three schools, this year’s summit welcomed nine schools from the New England area. “This summit was definitely successful. I just wish we had more schools come,” said Tran...
...unwelcome military threat in a region where it has always been pre-eminent. The other leading contender for the Pentagon post is Richard Danzig, a Clinton Navy secretary, who recently told reporters that the Obama team has "a strong view that national missile defense is a rewarding area and should be invested...
Meanwhile, as many as 2,000 people in Gonaives area have moved into schools just to be closer to food distribution centers. The government announced that it intends to open those schools by December, but has yet to say where it will relocate the refugees. Given the recent standing of Haiti's schools, they may be well advised to find some other kind of shelter soon...
...which has drafted a green-energy stimulus plan of its own. "We identified $50 billion in programs that are ready to go immediately," says Bracken Hendricks of CAP. "The package would create 2 million jobs across the skill spectrum, from blue collar to high tech, and in almost every area of the country. There was huge congressional appetite for this even before the economic crisis...