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Researchers report on the smart way to studyCombine the aphorisms that "practice makes perfect" and "timing is everything" into one and you might get something resembling findings published in this month's issue of Psychological Science. Proper spacing of lessons, the researchers report, can dramatically enhance learnin... |
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Obama’s impact on race politicsThis ‘letter to my son’, published in Newsweek magazine, is excellent: No election can wipe away racism, and bigotry will show itself to you in ways subtle and not. But it is easier today than it was yesterday to see that racism, once a barrier, is now more like a hurdle. What a fine ... |
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John Adams and the Ten Commandments [Dispatches from the Culture Wars]Jon Rowe has an interesting post at Positive Liberty about the Summum case that will be heard by the Supreme Court in this term. That's the case where a fringe religious group wants to put up a monument to their Seven Aphorisms in a public park next to a Ten Commandments display in two cities in ... |
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Controversial Austrian Leader Killed In CrashJoerg Haider, who catapulted his party into a powerful force in Austrian politics with a mix of folksy aphorisms, in-your-face attacks on rivals and provocative praise of the Nazi era, died Saturday in a car accident. He was 58. ... |
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HORRORS! AP Says Bad Economy Makes Us Ugly!It's getting close to Halloween, so I hope this story doesn't scare you too much. But the Associated Press has discovered that this bad economy is making us ugly. That's right, ugly. Because of this downturn people just cannot afford to go to their friendly neighborhood plastic surgeon for those ... |
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Joseph Biden: Super FraudFor those interested, I still think the more revealing (though less politically significant) debate was last week's VP contest in which we learned what suckers swing voters and mainstream liberal pundits are. From my column: Palin had her own problems. She failed to answer direct questions d... |
