Parents who spend time and money to teach their children music, take heart -- a new Canadian study shows young children who take music lessons have better memories than their nonmusical peers(1).

花费金钱和时间让孩子们学习音乐的家长们注意了，这里有一条振奋人心的消息：一项新的加拿大研究显示，学习音乐的小孩比不学的拥有更佳的记忆力。

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Another nonmusical highlight of the trip: a witty, revelatory lecture on the writer Flannery O'Connor, presented at her birthplace by Christopher Hope, the distinguished novelist and poet, who is also Daniel Hope's father.

WSJ: The First Sounds of Spring | Savannah Music Festival | By Barrymore Laurence Scherer

With the 2010 World Cup, the vuvuzela joins the ticking stopwatch on "60 Minutes" and the piercing signal of the Emergency Broadcast System in the pantheon of nonmusical sounds that instantly tell you what is on TV even before you've entered the room.

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