Tag: young
Keep Your Brain Young
Read, Be Bilingual, Drink CoffeeStephen Krashen says there are three things you can do to stay young mentally and you can do all three at the same timeReadOlder people who read more do better on tests of mental ability. In fact they do a lot better. The standard test used to detect dementia is the MMSE, a short test...
Educating Young Haitian Refugees
Children under 18 years old make up almost half of Haiti's population of 9 million. As many as 8,000 schools that served 1.8 million children have been destroyed or damaged in the Port-au-Prince area alone, according to the United Nations. Pierre Michel Laguerre, director general of Haiti's Education Ministry, said all of the schools on the western side of...
Go East Young Woman
According to Kate Sommers-Dawes, studying in China is a a great career move as well as a cultural adventure.Recession or not, the race to learn Chinese is still on all across the Western hemisphere as the Chinese economy continues to surge, sporting twelve percent growth for the first quarter of 2010. Entrepreneurs and savvy graduates looking for an edge...