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Brain research shows brilliance
"parlez-vous Français?"
Dorothy Routh hopes,that when you say that, your child will say "oui!"
Routh, FSU's director of the Center for Educational Enhancement, has traveled across Florida since 1995 teaching 200 parents and educators about infant brain research released by neuroscientists two years ago.
Among many other findings, researchers now know that reading foreign-language books and playing classical music to young children will make them smarter when they are older.
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FSU students are older, more experienced
As a first semester accounting major, Lametria Cliatt would be the exception to the rule at Florida State's main campus
Why?
She's 25.
She has two young children.
And she works full time.
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Dog fights and fast planes keep this artist painting
Troy White's art and life involve airplanes no surprise since he comes from an Air Force upbringing, and he grew up loving World War II movies especially the dog fights.
White received an M.F.A. from FSU in 1983.
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FSU grad heats up the track
It was Bill Ticheners first pro race.
He was four laps into it doing a cool 50 m.p.h. in the first turn, when another car's open wheels ground into his. His car went flying. He did a 360 like a gymnast, one observer said.
Tichener's driving helmet, modeled after FSU's football helmet, got as much TV time as the crash.
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Students experimenting with the fuel of the future
To engineering students who had spent months building a solar-powered car, a qualifying trip to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway June 13 might as well have been the Indy 500.
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DOES THE ACADEMIC INTERNET NEED CONTROL?
YES / NO
"LOOK WHO'S TALKING"
Excerpts from speeches by Susan
Faludi, Harry Wu, and Howard Zinn.
PROFILES IN SPORTS
Steve Robinson and Sue Semrau
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