All children are born with the same kind of brain wiring, so at the outset, we are all equally adept at learning any possible human language. For a newborn, any language is, in principle, as easy or ...

Schoolteachers in the southern Gali district of Abkhazia have long been accustomed to operating on a shoestring. For them, the free delivery of brand-new textbooks should be cause for elation. Unless, ...