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Success in the global beauty market, however, is not necessarily embraced back home. Last year's Miss Universe runner-up Kurara Chibana has been a commercial hit back in Japan; and with her east Asian facial features she has snagged more than 100 magazine pages and was chosen to be the spokesperson for a popular shampoo Asience, which celebrates Asian beauty (other endorsers include the Chinese actress Ziyi Zhang). However, Miss Universe Mori fits the more statuesque, chiseled mold of Latin American and southeast Asian beauties. When a Japanese sports daily mistakenly published Miss Thailand's picture as Mori...
...seemed to mistake the campus’s persistent invocation of the precious term “dialogue” for a bona fide invitation to frank discussion. Of course, he was wrong—“dialogue” is a vacuity hiding behind a pretty-sounding facial meaning. Such terms have blossomed into wide, unexamined usage at Harvard in our times, and my classmates can be thankful they are graduating from this realm of self-contradicting doublespeak: Where “dialogue” means the neutering of conversation for sensitivity’s sake, and where...
...Crime: A sleeping, pregnant woman was attacked and assaulted at knifepoint in her bed in 1985 in Texas. The victim gave police a detailed description of her attacker, including clothing, facial features, age and height. She said he was a white man whose skin was "a honey brown color." Four months later, the victim saw Byrd, who is black, at a grocery store and said he was the man who had raped her. Based on this identification, Byrd was convicted of rape and sentenced to life in prison...
...which English was the only language spoken and another in which the parents used both English and French--the team of scientists played silent video clips of English- and French-speaking adults reading in each language. Babies at 4 and 6 months old noticed the difference in facial expressions when the language was switched, and paid more attention to the clips after such a swap than when all the readings were in the same language. By 8 months, however, only infants reared in bilingual homes retained the ability to make this distinction...
Which makes perfect sense. At birth, babies need to be receptive to any language and the facial cues that differentiate them. With time, they learn to focus on the sounds, muscle movements and facial rhythms of only the languages to which they are exposed. It's all part of the way babies learn, by processing stimuli from a range of senses; even language, it seems, depends on visual triggers. So go ahead and coo at the next infant you encounter. Just be expressive about...