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...What to infer from these rankings? That Americans will pay to see Will Ferrell (Talladega Nights) or Adam Sandler (Click) or Ben Stiller (Night at the Museum) in a certain kind of comedy - and Cruise can get their attention by testing the tensile strength of Oprah's couch - but somehow these guys don't fit the image of movie star. The Harris poll suggests the yen for a platonic ideal: the humane man (Washington, Hanks, Smith), or the tough hombre (Wayne, Eastwood, Gibson, Ford), or the matinee idol (Depp, Clooney) or the pretty woman (Roberts). These are not just people...
...practice session, they sat beneath a coil of wire that sent a brief magnetic pulse into the motor cortex of their brain, located in a strip running from the crown of the head toward each ear. The so-called transcranial-magnetic-stimulation (TMS) test allows scientists to infer the function of neurons just beneath the coil. In the piano players, the TMS mapped how much of the motor cortex controlled the finger movements needed for the piano exercise. What the scientists found was that after a week of practice, the stretch of motor cortex devoted to these finger movements took...
...Infer what you will...
...Etchemendy's IRS analogy in his Times op-ed, which concludes: There is nothing about early admissions, in itself, that gives an advantage to those who apply early. It all depends on whether the university imposes lower, the same, or higher standards to the early pool. Nor can you infer the standards by simply comparing admission rates in the early and late pools.Fair enough. But from a journalist's standpoint, it's better to have the numbers, and the Ivy papers should be after them. The Dartmouth struck out at Harvard, Princeton and Penn, but perhaps the on-campus dailies...
...study support the widespread view that negative emotions can have physiological impacts—for example, by causing chronic inflammation in the lungs. While Kubzansky describes the results of the study as “definitive,” she says that it is too early to infer causal relationships from the data. “There is always the possibility, however slim, that the same gene causes hostility and a faster rate of pulmonary decline, or that both come about as a result of childhood adversity.” The results of the study will be published...