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...helped that they came from different disciplines: Thomas Cech, who heads the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1989, while Herbert Pardes, the president of New York Presbyterian Hospital, teaches psychiatry at Columbia, and J. Richard Gott is an astrophysicist at Princeton. M.I.T.'s Steven Pinker and Harvard's Stephen Kosslyn specialize in brain and cognitive sciences; Thomas Lovejoy is a tropical biologist who serves as chief biodiversity adviser to the president of the World Bank; and Michael Novacek, provost of science at the American Museum of Natural History, is a vertebrate paleontologist...
...panel of scientific advisors, which included Steven Pinker, MIT professor of brain and cognitive sciences, and Stephen Kosslyn, Professor of Psychology, chose the 18 winners from a list of 100 experts in science and medicine...
...what works best? In its new study, the exercise council evaluates the popular Ab-Doer. A lengthy TV infomercial promises that just 10 minutes a day performing such maneuvers as "Body Boogies" and "Good Mornings" will "trim those abs the fun and easy way without diets." Steven Loy, professor of kinesiology at California State University, Northridge, tested those claims by measuring the electrical activity produced by the abdominals during three Ab-Doer maneuvers. He and his colleagues then compared the results with those generated during traditional exercises. They determined that the muscles were no more active, and in some cases...
...could have done a better job," says Alterra president Steven Vick about what happened at the Eagan center. He says such problems are rare. "These events are disappointing, but we work every single day to correct them." Karen Wayne, president of the Assisted Living Federation of America, one of the industry's main trade groups, says problems such as those at the Eagan center have been exaggerated. "When you look at the number of people we serve," she says, "these are isolated accidents and tragic events...
...Last year math SAT scores hit a 30-year high, and college-admissions officers talk about how tough the competition is to get into top schools because the applicants are so focused and talented. "We have a great generation of young people right under our noses right now," observes Steven Culbertson, head of Youth Service America, a Washington resource center for volunteering, "and nobody knows...