Controlling Your Concentration CONCENTRATION IS CENTERING YOUR ATTENTION Psychologically defined, concentration is the process of centering one's attention over a period of time. In practical applicat

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Aging in European Countries We have to realise how old, how very old, we are. Nations are classified as

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Children's Self-esteem Self-esteem is what people think about themselves - whether or not they feel valued - and when family members have self-respect, pride, and belief in themselves, this high self-

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The Campaign for Election Although presidential elections occur every 4 years, many people feel that they do not have a true understanding of how presidential campaigns operate. The winner in the Nove

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The American Two-party System No one now living in the United States can remember when the contest began between the Democratic and the Republican parties. It has been going on for more than a century

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Sacrificed to Science? Professor Colin Blakemore works at Oxford University Medical School doing research into eye problems and believes that animal research has given humans many benefits: The use of

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Let Your Mind Wander Until recently daydreaming was generally considered either a waste of time or a symptom of neurotic tendencies, and habitual daydreaming was regarded as evidence of maladjustment

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Predicting Earthquakes Can earthquakes be predicted? Scientists are working on programs to predict where and when an earthquake will occur. They hope to develop an early warning system that can be use

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To Sleep, Perchance to Dream So you awoke this morning in a miserable mood. Well, maybe your special dream character didn't put in an appearance last night, or maybe there just weren't enough people d

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Work, Labor, and Play So far as I know, Miss Hannah Arendt was the first person to define the essential difference between work and labor. To be happy, a man must feel, firstly, free and, secondly, im

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The Workman's Compensation How can someone, hour after hour, day after day, year in and year out, tighten approximately the same nut to the same bolt and not go mad? That most working people do not, i

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The Teacher's Last Shocking Lesson A remarkable woman reasons with her killer - and tapes it She used the miniature tape recorder for a graduate-school course she was taking. The device, though, would

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The Seeds of Wrath The world knows a great deal about apartheid. It knows it as a repressive political system which denies political representation to 14,000,000 South Africans because they are not wh

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The Computer and The Poet The essential problem of man in a computerized age remains the same as it has always been. That problem is not solely how to be more productive, more comfortable, more conten

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Changes to Come in U. S. Education The biggest

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Munich: The Festival City How would you like to sip a glass of cold beer while sitting in the shadow of a Chinese pagoda surrounded by English gardens in the middle of a southern German city? It may s

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Why Can't You Tickle Yourself Have you ever thought about why people are ticklish? According to scientists, ticklishness is a defense mechanism humans developed against bugs, spiders, and other critte

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Kicking up Some Dust At first glance, dust storms do not seem very fascinating. Winds pick up fine particles from the ground, and then the air becomes thick with dust. What is interesting, though, is

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Why Does Alcohol Affect Women More? Many people assume that women are more greatly affected by alcohol than men because they generally weigh less and have lower rates of drinking. While this is true,

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The Edison Effect There are many people who say Thomas Edison single-handedly invented the twentieth century. Although there are those who may disagree, one thing cannot be denied: Edison was a genius

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