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...much-discussed exhibition, which closed last week, was organized by the Citizens Commission for Human Rights, a group that counts the Church of Scientology as one of its sponsors. According to the group’s Web site, the “non-profit public benefit organization” hopes to “clean up the field of mental health...
...Another benefit of creating a “zone of resistance” is that when the gene is injected in one side of the brain, it can eliminate a tumor on the other, or contralateral, side, according to Anat O. Stemmer-Rachamimov, a pathologist at MGH and another of the study’s authors...
...writing. The Paul Simon story is raw, amazing life," Petty said. "Either of those can win on this site." The contest's only inflexible condition is that each story must be true; FieldReport checks up on the winners to verify that their narratives aren't fictional. The site's benefit for both writers and readers, according to the founders, is its sense of community. "The blogosphere hasn't given people an effective outlet for publishing this kind of story," Thompson says, "because unless you're really savvy, you're actually just jettisoning your stories into space. FieldReport brings readers together...
...intellectual kit bags packed differently, everyone has a clear idea about where we overlap, which is a real interest in tradition and manifestations of expressive culture,” Mitchell said.But the cobbling together of professors from departments across the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is seen as a benefit rather than a cost.“It has many windows. It’s a discipline in of itself but it also stands at the crossroads of many other disciplines,” said Maria Tatar, a professor of Germanic languages and literature and the current Folk and Myth...
...teaching young children to read, was for the most part a heartening piece of news. Parents and teachers should indeed at times allow a child’s interests—even if they are in video games and movies—to work to their own educational benefit. In the Times report, an administrator at the New York Public Library puts the question very succinctly: “What exactly is reading?” In an age in which information technology and even the use of paper are rapidly transforming, this question is less obvious than it sounds...