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...officially) read anything, and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page—single bluebook finals look like less work to grade and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome and is probably worth a good extra five points if you can hack...
...really shocked,” Logigian said. “We made a lot of strides this season, with extra work in the off-season and the big game against Duke. We have great coaches, and the coaches and the older guys talked to me a lot during the season and really helped me gain confidence...
...police officers working overtime to keep tent city safe finally returned home last week, but an extra crime fighting force—more than 200 strong—descended on the Yard on Friday to investigate a reported kidnapping and enjoy a picnic lunch on the Science Center lawn...
...nuns' youthful autobiographies in more detail, and their relationship led to an interesting discovery: autopsies by other scientists had shown that the physical destruction wrought by Alzheimer's didn't inevitably lead to mental deterioration. The reason, according to one leading theory, was that some folks might have an extra reserve of mental capacity that kept them functioning despite the loss of brain tissue...
...Mortimer, along with University of Kansas psychologist Susan Kemper, began analyzing the autobiographies for evidence of such extra capacity. Kemper, an expert on the effects of aging on language usage, had earlier shown that "idea density"--the number of discrete ideas per 10 written words--was a good marker of educational level, vocabulary and general knowledge. Grammatical complexity, meanwhile, was an indicator of how well memory was functioning...