Word: development
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Strikingly, not all the children born to depressed mothers develop these aberrant brain-wave patterns, Dawson has found. What accounts for the difference appears to be the emotional tone of the exchanges between mother and child. By scrutinizing hours of videotape that show depressed mothers interacting with their babies, Dawson has attempted to identify the links between maternal behavior and children's brains. She found that mothers who were disengaged, irritable or impatient had babies with sad brains. But depressed mothers who managed to rise above their melancholy, lavishing their babies with attention and indulging in playful games, had children...
...newest discoveries in neuroscience. Reading to Chelsea became a daily ritual because it's what our own parents and grandparents had done with us, and because we wanted to spend quiet time with her every day. Bill's grandmother thought that reading to him would help him develop a strong vocabulary and the language skills he would need later on in school. My mother and father placed a similar premium on reading, and to this day I remember the feelings of security and comfort that I felt sitting in my grandfather's lap when he read stories to my brothers...
...everyone quickly points out that Gates is "the smartest guy I've ever met." Yet he gets locked out of his $40 million house and stuck in the yard, doesn't wear a seat belt while driving recklessly and thinks his daughter is "just beginning to develop a personality." He doesn't have the courtesy to offer a guest a soft drink when he serves himself, leaves his wife for an annual weekend with his former girlfriend and is loud in restaurants. With cold arrogance, Gates incorrectly equates intelligence with being smart, and being smart with being good. Your portrayal...
...defining a niche, but how much press coverage does he deserve? I think I've already read several pieces on Gates in your magazine over the past few years. While I appreciate PCs as much as anyone, I'm no more interested in details about the geeks who develop them than I am in the people who perfect cellular phones. Bring us the technology, but drop the hero worship. KEVIN C. THORNTON Finksburg, Maryland...
...persistent behavioral patterns in a creature who is often unreliable, unable to judge risk accurately or irrationally convinced that he is immortal and invincible. The solution to stopping the spread of AIDS is a vaccine to prevent further untold, unspeakable pain, suffering and economic hardship. The task is to develop a vaccine, not a cure. SARAH E. BLACKWELL London...