The researchers ranked students on a widely used measure called the Torrance Test of Creativity, which involves such tasks as drawing an "interesting and exciting" picture from a curved shape on a sheet of paper, giving the picture a title, and then writing a story about it.

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These artifacts come in the shape of jewelry boxes or picture frames, but sometimes an artist turns out something like the 8-foot-tall Eiffel Tower made in 1915 by German immigrant George Paul Keilberg.

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There will be a lot of talk about what this means for the national picture, and it certainly hurts Republicans nationally because the Republicans are in bad shape.

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It is, in fact, a powerful lens with which to study a society because it offers a view, not just into intimate life, but also of the bigger picture: politics and economics, religion and tradition, gender and generations that shape sexual attitudes and behaviors.

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Recent housing number were terrible, and the jobs picture is not improving, says Morici, which could mean that the relatively resilient car market may be in better shape now than it will be a few months down the road.

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