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The Mind Of The Polyglot Is A Very Particular Thing, And Scientists Are Only Beginning To Look Closely At How Acquiring A Second Language Influences Learning, Behavior And The Very Structure Of The Brain Itself.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev Is Telling No Tales. The Older Of The Two Brothers Who Committed The Boston Marathon Bombings Was Likely The One Who Planned The Attack, But When He Died In A Shootout With Police Just Days After The Blasts, His Thoughts And Motivations Vanished With Him.

The Death Of Anti-gay Hate Speech Is No Doubt Being Hastened By The Head-spinning Speed With Which Gays As A Group - To Say Nothing Of Gay Marriage - Are Becoming An Unremarkable And Even Quite Traditional Parts Of American Life.

I Grew Up In A Suburb Of Baltimore With An Extremely High Concentration Of Jewish Families - Where The Levys And Cohens In The High School Yearbook Went On For Pages, Where I Could Count Far More Temples Than I Ever Could Churches. Anti-semitism, In Our Cultural Biodome, Was Mostly An Abstract Concept.

Members Of Royal Families Are Born Into A World Of Indulgence And Entitlement, And The Princelings Who Grow Up That Way May Never Have To Develop The Emotional Musculature That Will Allow Them To Show Self-restraint.