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...catch is, when you're surfing the Web on bigger.net, there will be a window filled with advertising next to the browser itself. Close the ad window, and you're disconnected. Juno users also receive ads from sponsors in their e-mail inboxes every morning...
...maintain their still tentative connections. More controversially, many linguists believe that language skills unfold according to a strict, biologically defined timetable. Children, in their view, resemble certain species of birds that cannot master their song unless they hear it sung at an early age. In zebra finches the window for acquiring the appropriate song opens 25 to 30 days after hatching and shuts some 50 days later...
With a few exceptions, the windows of opportunity in the human brain do not close quite so abruptly. There appears to be a series of windows for developing language. The window for acquiring syntax may close as early as five or six years of age, while the window for adding new words may never close. The ability to learn a second language is highest between birth and the age of six, then undergoes a steady and inexorable decline. Many adults still manage to learn new languages, but usually only after great struggle...
...better than a nice big bag of pot. In a bust sure to wipe the perpetual smile of Ronald McDonald's face, a 19-year-old employee of the burger joint was arrested today for selling marijuana in Happy Meals. Mence Powell, who manned the restaurant's drive-through window, was taken into custody after selling undercover officers a burger, fries, soda and a side of weed on five separate occasions. Police said Powell pulled the scam by arranging deals in advance. After an order was placed, customers would then head to the drive-through window to complete the transaction...
...called from a cell phone at 1:15 a.m. for help illuminating the area with the headlights of her car, the better to fix his flat. According to those stories, the witness supposedly left the scene because she saw a man with a pistol, who tapped on her car window. She then returned and found Ennis dead on the pavement next to his Mercedes. She supposedly saw a car fleeing but could not identify the make. The police have announced that something was taken from the crime scene, but Williams would not be specific. On Saturday the L.A.P.D. announced that...