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...that those with higher scores for shyness had lower levels of activity in the cortex, where sophisticated thought takes place. That suggested higher levels of activity in the more primitive amygdala, where anxiety and alarm are sounded. Shy children, Battaglia concluded, may simply be less adept at reading the facial flickers other kids use as social cues. Unable to rely on those helpful signals, they tend to go on high alert, feeling anxious about any face they can't decipher. "The capacity to interpret faces is one of the most important prerequisites for balanced relationships," Battaglia says...
Nonetheless, both actors have their flaws. Rai, although stunningly beautiful, cannot seem to manipulate her features into more than one or two facial expressions and Henderson, I fear, is just as bland an actor as Darcy is a character. Fortunately, their respective flaws are appropriate to their characters and serve to subtly highlight the multilayered culture clash that this film conveys...
...Simmonds' keen characterization comes from both her clever writing and exceptional drawing skills. Using what looks like a soft pencil and gray wash, she creates naturalistic drawings that camouflage what are actually carefully composed arrangements of gesture, posture and facial affect. One remarkable panel shows a Christmas dinner party at which Gemma and Charlie are seated. The hostess looms to the left, while a man scolds a child at the right, with all the other characters carefully positioned in the space to display a different state of mind. In a brilliantly satiric take on selfish love, Simmonds uses a thought...
...took the Vatican a decade to confirm what the world had long been witnessing with its own eyes. It was in the early 1990s that Pope John Paul II first showed symptoms of Parkinson's disease, with the trembling of his hands, stiffening of facial muscles and slurring speech progressively worsening over the years. But Vatican officials confirmed the diagnosis only recently, a sign of just how sensitive - some would say hypersensitive - the Holy See is when the subject is John Paul's health...
...www.grandwailea.com). Exotic pools are not just the domain of warmer climes: 40 minutes outside of Reykjavik, Iceland, is the year-round, 39°C heat at the Blue Lagoon. Pumped from a geothermal source, it comes complete with silica mud for a do-it-yourself facial (tel: [354] 420 8800; www.bluelagoon.is). All in all, they sure beat those childhood swimming lessons at the local pool...