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15. Firm that added "gender-identity characteristics or expression" to its equal-opportunity policy.
This ease of communication often leaves visitors with the mistaken impression that they and the natives are speaking the same language. This is not the case. Language at Home is in fact a complex dance of syntax and connotation. For example, a simple expression like "I see what you mean...
Goldstein said she was also asked difficultquestions. "One of the economists on the panel,without any warning, asked me to tell him what thepartial derivative with respect to y of some longmathematical expression was--without writinganything down!" she said.
It takes a moment to realize what I am seeing: a monkey in a tree. To be specific, it is a black spider monkey (Ateles paniscus) swinging through the topmost branches of a ceiba tree in the rain forest in Suriname, the former Dutch Guyana, north of Brazil. Thick-furred...
At the village, custom requires that we hold a krutu, a sort of formal palaver, with the granman--grand man, the paramount chief--and his council, before we wander about. We gather in his hut with the village leaders. He is a compact man, with a slightly sad expression--sort...