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From the earliest months, a healthy baby engages in an astonishing range of social behaviors. Most will begin smiling back at a loved one in the first four months of life. Most will follow a parent's gaze with their own eyes by eight months. Most will also study a caregiver's facial expressions and mimic exhibits of fear, surprise or delight with their own tiny features. They will babble a conversation back and forth by nine months, respond to their names by 10 months, and begin to point to a desired toy or treat by around a year...
...rigorous training regimen at a time when competition across the country is intensifying. Harvard’s fall Frisbee season will wrap up in two weeks at the Brown tournament. The team will pick up training again with a volunteer coach in January. The more competitive spring season will begin in February, when the Red Line will travel to Las Vegas to participate in the country’s largest ultimate Frisbee tournament. The team will also compete at Yale, in Texas and North Carolina over spring break, and at sectionals. All of these tournaments are preludes to the regional...
...art—but in reality, art is not always random.There were clear moments of artistic depth in Porter’s performance, but they came in the middle of very sporadic and unclear movements and diction. At one moment, Dr. Nikki Nom was sitting down patiently to begin the next poem; in the next, she had twisted herself on the chair, hugging it for dear life; in yet another, she twirled on stage to a background of classical music before running from one side of the stage to the other. The eccentric definitely outweighed the conventional...
...can’t even begin to estimate how many people were here,” Forrestall said. “You couldn’t even walk, all the good people in this world were here...
...course, nature rarely abides apocalypse. By the time the flames finally begin to go out, the charred forests will be on their way to rebirth. "The plants will put in new growth soon," says David Weise, a project leader with the Forest Service's Forest Fire Laboratory in Riverside, Calif. "The forest is amazingly resilient...