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COVER:
Are We Failing Our Geniuses? - In U.S. schools, the highest achievers are too often challenged the least. Why that's hurting America — and how to fix it
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How Not to Raise a Genius - Is Baby Einstein doing your child more harm than good?
• HEALTH & MEDICINE:
When Sadness Is a Good Thing - A new book argues that we should stop treating normal sorrow as a mental illness
• SOCIETY:
An Uneven Playing Field for Female Athletes - More colleges than ever have added women's teams. What's missing now? Enough women coaches
Scientific American, June 2007
Read about INFORMATION TECHNOLOGYBreaking Network Logjams. Network coding could dramatically enhance the efficiency of communications networks. PARTICLE COSMOLOGYWhen Fields Collide. The history of particle cosmology shows that science can benefit from wrenching changes INNOVATIONSSeeing Triple. Anticipated for decades, machines are finally displaying real objects in three true dimensions MEDICINE Lifting the Fog around Anesthesia. Learning why current anesthetics are so potent and sometimes dangerous will lead to a new generation of safer targeted drugs. BIOLOGY
A Simpler Origin for Life. Energy-driven networks of small molecules may be more likely first steps for life than the commonly held idea of the sudden emergence of large self-replicating molecules such as RNA. ECOSYSTEMS
Restoring America's Big, Wild Animals. Pleistocene rewilding--a proposal to bring back animals that disappeared from North America 13,000 years ago--offers an optimistic agenda for 21st-century conservation.
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Billy Graham, Pastor In Chief - A new book reveals what Graham learned — and what he regretted — in his 50-year ministry to U.S. Presidents
• WORLD:
The War Next Door - A surge in drug-related violence is terrorizing Mexico and sparking fears that the killing could cross the U.S. border
• HEALTH & MEDICINE:
Rethinking Organics - The way your fruits and vegetables are grown makes a big difference, right? Don't be so sure
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Explaining Déjà Vu - Memory experts find the brain circuit that may be the cause of these eerie experiences
