Reading, going to work and navigating a busy life may be enough to maintain brain health, but lifting performance takes massive amounts of practice--learning a new language, taking regular music lessons, doing complex jigsaw puzzles--to produce enough chemicals to make synapses stronger.

FORBES: Innovation

"The benefit of a natural-language approach is that you get performance superior to regular keyword searches, " says Jackie Fenn, a vice president at Stamford, Conn.

CNN: New search engine promises real answers

As a first step, NATO could consider regular training on cyberdefense so that national experts share the same knowledge and language.

WSJ: Anders Fogh Rasmussen: NATO's Next War��in Cyberspace

This blogger, a regular at our Democracy in America blog, has put down many thoughts on language in American politics, as in here, here, here and here.

ECONOMIST: Language

Building on that success, and subsequent successes with English language clips like The Three Terrors , and The Iranian Bomb Song , we are recruiting a team of English-language satirists to produce clips directed at the international audience on a regular basis.

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