Tuesday, January 8, 2013

1/8/13 - Europe's Fading Fortunes Push Young Professionals Abroad; Newborns Know Their Native Tongue, Study Finds

Today's Articles:

Washington Post
December 25, 2012
"Europe’s fading fortunes push young professionals abroad"

"...he was raised with a set of expectations familiar in the developed world: Study hard, learn a technical trade like architecture, and the path to a solid standard of living and a comfortable retirement would be set. In today’s Europe, he said, that narrative is urgently out of date. Some of his school classmates are narrowing their vision, settling on makeshift jobs like furniture repair. Others search the globe for a better foothold."


Yahoo News
January 2, 2013
"Newborns Know Their Native Tongue, Study Finds"

"Just hours after they're born, babies seem to be able to tell the difference between sounds in their native tongue and a foreign one, according to a new study that suggests language learning begins in utero."


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