A In her pioneering survey, Sources of London English, Laura Wright has listed the variety of medieval workers who took their livings from the river Thames. The baillies of Queenhithe and Billingsgate acted as customs officers. There were conservators, who were...

Examining the placebo effect The fact that taking a fake drug can powerfully improve some people's health - the so- called placebo effect - was long considered an embarrassment to the serious practice of pharmacology, but now things have changed. Several years ago....

A A facial expression is one or more motions or positions of the muscles in the skin. These movements convey the emotional state of the individual to observers. Facial expressions are a form of nonverbal communication. They are a primary means of conveying social...

Pharmaceuticals is one of the most profitable industries in North America. But do the drugs industry's sales and marketing strategies go too far? A A few months ago Kim Schaefer, sales representative of a major global pharmaceutical company, walked into a medical...

Children in developing countries are healthier and more likely to survive past the age of five when their mothers can read and write. Experts In public health accepted this idea decades ago, but until now no one has been able to show that a woman's ability to read in...

Does An IQ Test Prove Creativity?   PASSAGE A  In the early 1970s, creativity was still seen as a type of intelligence. But when more subtle tests of IQ and creative skills were developed in the 1970s, particularly by the father of creativity testing, Paul...