Marcus Noland, senior fellow since 1985, was a senior economist in the Council of Economic Advisers and held research or teaching positions at the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Southern California, Tokyo University, Saitama University, the University of Ghana, the Korea Development Institute, and the East-West Center. He won the 2000–01 Ohira Masayoshi Award for his book Avoiding ...

In 1908, the French psychologists Binet and Simon published their second and most famous series of tests for the diagnosis of the grade of intelligence of children. This series, translated and adapted for American use by Goddard and Whipple, has won for itself widespread acceptance and increasing application by those interested in the education of exceptional children. This widespread practical...

In our daily life, it is very common to make decisions in uncertain situations. The Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) has been widely used in laboratory studies because of its good simulation of uncertainty in real life activities. The present study aimed to examine the neural correlates of uncertain decision making with the IGT. Twenty-six university students completed this study. An adapted IGT was ad...

The duo of Tim Anderson and R.J. Kieber beat Chris Catron and Bob Catron in a playoff and emerged as the 1999 Best Ball Champs on Saturday, June 26. It was the first time the long time friends had won the title together. Anderson had won three previous best ball titles with different partners each time: in 1982 he was a co-champion with Jon Brumond; in 1987 with Tim Holmquist and in 1992 with B...

The causes of seat change in midterm elections have been debated for decades. Some political scientists believe seat change is caused by heightened national conditions; others argue seat change is a result of conditions within districts. Political scientists agree however that candidate quality affects election outcomes. In general, the party that recruits the highest quality candidates and run...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Insomnia is a common complaint in adults. However, large epidemiologic studies of insomnia involving Asian populations are rarely reported. We performed an epidemiologic study of insomnia in a large Korean adult population. METHODS A total of 5,000 subjects (2,470 men and 2,530 women) were interviewed by telephone. A representative sample of subjects aged 20 to 69 years...

An 86-year-old man became a double champion in the European championship for road running in 2009. He won the 10-km road run with a time of 58:01 minutes, setting a new European record for men aged 85 and older. Two days later, he became a European champion in the same age group for the half-marathon, with a time of 2:17 hours. He started his running career at the age of 64 years and has traine...

s June 9 turned into June 10, crowds kept surging toward the Hachiko area west of Shibuya station. Shibuya has long been a boisterous focal point for Tokyo youth, but this was something else. Japan had just won their Group H match against Russia, and Tokyo was celebrating as if the World Cup was theirs. The honking horns and chants drowned out the megaphones of the massively outnumbered police....