Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gave a firm stance, but I was hoping he would break it down and explain it more," Mortensen said. "It was predictable...
...Calif., is partial to traditional Chinese and homeopathic treatments, he tends to diagnose and describe his patients' symptoms in familiar Western terms. Sometimes it's easier to tell an owner that a dog has irritable bowel syndrome, he says, than to invoke the Chinese concept of "life force" and explain that an animal has a "deficiency...
...Norwegian Wood (note the Beatles reference) sold more than 2 million copies around the globe. Yet none of his earlier books prepare one for his massive new The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Knopf; 611 pages; $25.95), which digs relentlessly into the buried secrets of Japan's recent past to explain the weightless, desultory disconnections of a virtual society where nothing feels real and nobody really feels...
...medical anthropologist, Farmer says he studies such suffering from an academic standpoint. He looks at how people explain suffering when the resources, technical capacity and goodwill exist to prevent...
Smith also argued that readers did not see every letter in a word or every word in a text. If they did and if they tried to translate what they saw into sounds, reading would be much too cumbersome. Somehow, though, children learned to read. To explain this, Smith adapted theories about the acquisition of oral language. In the mid-'60s the linguist Noam Chomsky had determined that a child's brain is actually wired with the rules of all spoken languages. Immersed in the world of speech, the child learns by experience which rules apply to the language...