Word: distinguishable
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With her hat trick on Saturday evening, junior winger Nicole Corriero regained the nation’s goal-scoring lead and continued to distinguish herself as one of the nation’s deadliest offensive threats...
...adult male, I have to admit that after reading nearly a dozen different shojo titles I find it impossible to critically distinguish between them all. Like the male-targeted superhero books, none of them achieve much more than being amusing but disposable entertainment. The better ones stand out for the quality of the artwork and clarity of storytelling. Miwa Ueda's "Peach Girl" (TOKYOPOP), about the overly dramatic personal life of high-schooler Momo Adachi, seems a cut above with excellent art and slightly more mature themes. For younger readers, Miho Obana's "Kodocha: Sana's Stage" (TOKYOPOP) about...
...Media China's media market has evolved from the days when everyone read the same propaganda broadsheets. Particularly crowded are magazine racks dedicated to fashion and lifestyle. "We need to distinguish ourselves from other magazines, so we use cool covers with a linglei feeling," says Zhang Hua, editor of Guangzhou Modern Magazine. Last month's cover featured a model with metallic eye shadow and lots of attitude...
Part of what makes touch--and by extension, sex--such a central part of the species software is that hedonism simply makes good Darwinian sense. It's not for nothing that hot stoves hurt and caresses feel nice, and we learn early on to distinguish between the two. "All creatures do things that feel good and avoid things that feel bad," says J. Gayle Beck, professor of psychology at the University of Buffalo. "The individuals who learn that best live the longest...
...these data had a definite effect on me--they changed my understanding of romantic love. For many years I had regarded this wonderful experience as a constellation of related emotions that ranged from elation to despair. But psychologists distinguish between emotions and motivations--brain systems oriented around planning and pursuit of a specific want or need. And our colleague Art Aron was wedded to the idea that romantic love was not an emotion but a motivation system designed to enable suitors to build and maintain an intimate relationship with a preferred mating partner...