Word: facials
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...assured that the tyke is processing every change in the shape and rhythm of your mouth and face. Researchers, led by Whitney Weikum at the University of British Columbia, found that infants under 8 months old may rely on such visual cues to learn language, even using variations in facial expressions to distinguish one language from another...
...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...
Many migraineurs swear by various nonpharmacological methods of keeping their headaches at bay, such as yoga, meditation and biofeedback. These techniques probably work best for patients whose headaches are triggered by stress or tense facial muscles. One of the surprises of the past couple of years is the effectiveness of botox, which is now being injected into facial muscles to temporarily erase wrinkles. Migraineurs have reported that botox seems to banish their headaches as well. Studies are under way to see if those observations hold...
...American spectacle. An unprecedented 7,000 rowdy fanatics, digital cameras flashing, went to Friday's weigh-in, a much-ignored ceremony in which the fighters stand on a scale in their underwear. On fight night, 19 HBO television cameras followed the action with one dedicated to getting facial reactions from the fifty deep contingent of celebrities, including Helen Mirren, Sacha Baron Cohen, Sean Combs, Tobey Maguire, Russell Crowe, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Jennifer Lopez, whose husband, Marc Anthony crooned the national anthem...
...it’s a bit of a stretch when she brings Gosling home for Thanksgiving dinner. The in-your-face cinematography of this intellectual suspense flick is sure to engage its audiences. Several intense close-ups allow Hopkins, Gosling, and the rest of the cast to showcase their facial talents. “Fracture” contains no wild car races and is relatively bloodless, which speaks to the ability of the actors and the script to make murder more than just slashings and chases...