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Imagine a child at age 10 needing to count on fingers to tell you whether 6 is bigger than 5. That's not as rare as you might think. Affecting some 2.5-7.5% of the population, researchers say, the learning disability dyscalculia prevents people from comprehending or manipulating numbers, even small ones, easily. Though you may have never heard of it, the condition is much more than being bad at math. "You need to hear people suffering from dyscalculia, how hard it is for them to do everyday things, just going to the shop, counting change," says Roi Cohen Kadosh...
...farm: “We always end up hitting glass. We lost ten men on the last tunnel: Brian, Jack, Lawrence… Why don’t we just give up? I mean seriously, what’s the point?” This is the rare book of comedy that, however irreverent, is also genuinely powerful.Of course, premature adulthood is a fitting theme for a 22-year-old author who earned a two-book deal from Random House before his Harvard degree. Not to mention Rich’s arguably greater distinction last month, when the New Yorker...
...really the kind of character-driven movies that I love and that I grew up watching in the ’70s. This is kind of a throw-back to that,” Wahlberg says, explaining that “Shooter” offered the rare opportunity to emulate his favorite childhood characters. “You’ve got a guy’s guy who’s all about honor and integrity, and it reminded me of the great films that I grew up watching. It’s much more of a Travis Bickle...
...since 1991, when, with the help of the American-enforced no-fly zone, they drove Saddam's forces out of northern Iraq. But now, four years after the liberation of the rest of the country, Kurdish Iraq is undergoing an identity crisis. On the one hand it is a rare American success story in the Middle East, a stable territory run by a secular leadership committed to economic and political reform and sitting on a huge pool of oil. On the other hand, it is a tiny landlocked region, uncomfortably attached to a war-ravaged nation, and surrounded by unfriendly...
...hisname does not sound familiar, that's just how maverick clarinetist Tony Scott wanted it. Among the loudest horn blowers in jazz and a venerated sideman for greats like Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington, he was one of the rare masters of bebop--a jaunty sound previously deemed incompatible with the clarinet's soft tones. The arranger and composer also branched out to embrace sounds from countries like Japan and Senegal, helping launch the genre now known as world music. In doing so, he skirted classification--and high-voltage celebrity. "Without experimenters," he said, "jazz would die a lingering...