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Pillola abortiva, apertura della Turco “Via libera, senza test selvaggi” di MARIO REGGIO

ROMA - “Garantiremo a tutte le mamme italiane di partorire senza dolore. Il sistema sanitario nazionale assicurerà gratis l’anestesia epidurale. Nessun ostacolo alla pillola abortiva Ru486, ma rispettando le indicazioni della legge sull’aborto e senza alcuna sperimentazione selvaggia”. Livia Turco, ministro alla Salute, parla chiaro. Ed ha scelto il giorno dell’inaugurazione del nuovo reparto di Neonatologia al Policlinico Umberto I di Roma. (more…)

From the MIT website.

Sarah H. Wright, News Office May 15, 2006

Many people preserve their babies’ priceless first smiles, words or steps on video, but Associate Professor Deb Roy, head of the MIT Media Lab’s Cognitive Machines research group, is taking parental attentiveness to a whole new level.

Roy is recording nearly all of his new son’s waking hours in an ambitious attempt to use these data to unravel the mystery of how humans naturally acquire language within the context of their primary social setting. He will pay particular attention to the role of physical and social context in how his son, 9 months old, learns early words and early grammatical constructions. (more…)

Ciao ciao,

in my pre-exam panic, I found some cool resources for Contemporary literature: - this is a huge database of living authors writing in English. Really cool!

• the twentieth century a chronicle of events and literature. Useful for ignorant people like me!

Buon divertimento!!!