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Scientists who study child development have recently found that kids who are "smart but scattered" lack or lag behind in crucial executive skills—the core

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Timeline Condition:Like New Scientists who study child developmentMichael Crichton's new novel opens on the threshold of the twenty first century. It is a world of exploding advances on the frontiers of technology. Information moves instantly between two points, without wires or networks. Computers are built from single molecules. Any moment of the past can be actualized and a group of historians can enter, literally, life in fourteenth centuryfeudal France. Imagine the risks of such a journey. Not since Jurassic