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...smarter -- but only for 10 to 15 minutes. So argues a team of psychologists from the University of California at Irvine that published its preliminary findings in the British scientific journal Nature. Listening to relaxation tapes or sitting in silence had no effect, but the college students scored between eight and nine points higher on an IQ test after hearing a Mozart sonata. In the future the team plans, a bit tendentiously, to study whether repetitive music lacking in complexity (translation: rock) lowers test scores...
...died of injuries from hammer- like blows delivered by heavy metal flashlights. The two officers apologized to Green's family before Judge George Crockett handed down their punishments -- 12 to 25 years in prison for Nevers, who cannot be paroled before he has served at least nine years and eight months; and eight to 18 years for Budzyn, or a minimum of 6 1/2 years. The officers requested that they be imprisoned out of state to avoid cellblock encounters with inmates they sent to prison in the course of their police work...
...Cooper's would not compel employers to provide coverage, only encourage them to do so with tax incentives. Cooper's proposal differs from Clinton's in another important way: it has significant bipartisan support. It is sponsored by 50 members of the House, including 22 Republicans; in the Senate eight moderate Republicans and Democrats are writing an almost identical version. So far, only a single Republican in either chamber, Senator James Jeffords of Vermont, has endorsed the Clinton model, while more than 200 Congressmen and Senators have already chosen to support alternative bills. The longer legislators are forced to wait...
...Government's quarterly estimates of economic growth for personal gain, while the third passed along the information for an outsider's gain. It was the first time ever for such punitive action. Said Baldrige: ''We have a duty to maintain credibility and integrity.'' The firings came after an eight-month investigation following charges that the GNP estimates, which sharply affected the performance of U.S. financial markets on the day of their release, were leaked to Wall Street traders twice last year. The results of the inquest were severely disquieting. At least 60 bureau workers--well beyond the authorized limit--knew...
...President who considers political conflicts to be personal affronts and responds with physical intimidation, as Lyndon Johnson sometimes did? These may be attributes of past Presidents, but presidential attributes they are not. Ward R. Hitt White Plains, N.Y. As one who worked side by side with Mario Cuomo for eight years in the cabinet of Governor Hugh Carey, and who served as commissioner of transportation in the Cuomo administration, I found much of what you wrote to be insightful and accurate. But by implying disapproval of Cuomo's management style, you missed an important part of the picture. What...