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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
The Economist Week August 18th - August 24th 2007 Audio Edition
Welcome to the audio edition of The Economist, the authoritative weekly
newspaper covering world politics, business, finance, science and
technology. The audio edition contains word-for-word recordings of
almost all articles published in the The Economist read by professional
newsreaders and actors.
Scientific American, August 19, 2007 Scientific American Digital
In this issue:
NNOVATIONS
Data Center in a Box
By M. Mitchell Waldrop
A shipping container stuffed with servers could usher in the era of cloud computing
PUBLIC POLICY
Race in a Bottle
By Jonathan Kahn
Drugmakers are eager to develop medicines targeted at ethnic groups, but so far they have made poor choices based on unsound science
NEUROSCIENCE
Windows on the Mind
By Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde
Once scorned as nervous tics, certain tiny, unconscious flicks of the eyes now turn out to underpin much of our ability to see. These movements may even reveal subliminal thoughts
MODELING
Predicting Wildfires
By Mark Finney and Mark Fischetti and Patricia Andrews
Fires are burning more acres than ever. Where will the next blazes ignite? Can we prevent them? Should we?
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COVER:
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
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The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by "The Economist Newspaper Ltd" and edited in London. It has been in continuous publication since James Wilson established it in September 1843. As of 2006, its average circulation topped one million copies a week, about half of which are sold in North America. Consequently it is often seen as a transatlantic (as opposed to solely British) news source.
Scientific American, August 19, 2007
