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Look up Adolf Hitler in Wikipedia and you’ll learn that he was “an Austrian who led the National Socialist German Workers Party,” which “emphasised nationalism and antisemitism and murdered many of its opponents to ensure success.?...

Author: By Patrick R. Chesnut, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Darkness Lurks Behind Humor of 'Nazi Literature' | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

Neuroscientists have known for a while that kids' brains are programmed to do the wave. The cortex, or outer layer of gray matter--which is responsible for such things as planning movement and suppressing inappropriate thoughts or actions--thickens from back to front during childhood and then thins out in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Children Can Outgrow ADHD | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

Shaw and his colleagues compiled data from the brain scans of 446 children, half of whom had ADHD. The scans used new imaging technology that allowed researchers to "watch" some 40,000 points in the subjects' brains over time, and to figure out which specific regions of the brain developed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADHD Kids Can Get Better | 11/12/2007 | See Source »

The taxi drivers I’ve met this summer, however, no longer ask me where I’ve learned such good Chinese. Instead, when I attempt to relay my destination, they invariably turn to me, raising their eyebrows through the standard plastic panel that encases the driver?...

Author: By Gracye Y. Cheng | Title: What the Taxi Driver Said | 8/2/2007 | See Source »

With those expectations casting Thompson as Reagan reincarnate, it's easy to understand why he's staying out of the race for as long as he can. The next Republican debate takes place Aug. 5 in Des Moines, to be followed six days later by the Iowa straw poll in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Fred Thompson the G.O.P.'s Savior? | 7/25/2007 | See Source »

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