Word: familiarizes
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...baby-food months are also a critical time for food imprinting. Experiencing a flavor about 10 times during this period can make children familiar enough with it to develop a preference for it later on, says Greene. This, unfortunately, includes a predilection for the taste of, say, cooked strained peaches, which does not translate into opting for the raw fruit later on. Why? "Children have already been imprinted with the processed flavor," he says. (See TIME's special report "Safety Issues: Pills During Pregnancy...
...Perry stands by the decision to execute Willingham. "I am familiar with the latter-day supposed experts on the arson side of it," Perry told the Dallas Morning News last month. Over the weekend, his office told the Corsicana Daily Sun: "Governor Perry has reviewed the totality of the facts of the case, and has stood by the conclusions reached by the courts ... To suggest the arson testimony was the only evidence presented to the jury is grossly inaccurate. The jury also heard testimony of inaccuracies in Willingham's statements...
...play, in its understated way, is just as impressive. Huff has done two hard things. He has taken very familiar subject matter - the morally ambiguous life of cops working the mean streets - and made it seem fresh, authentic, brutally uncompromising yet not sensationalized. And he has done it using a device - actors talking directly to the audience - that is too often the resort of lazy playwrights who don't have the patience to write a fully fleshed-out play. (Read "Who'll Win the Tonys...
Yale's career services office knows the ins and outs of finding students finance jobs, but can barely help students land jobs in the arts. Sound familiar...
...years, 7-Eleven Hong Kong has shown deference to Hong Kong's love of food by offering ready-to-eat local fare like pork buns, shao mai and fish balls. (The more familiar roller-grill hot dogs and Slurpees are also available at some of the stores.) In fact, Casey Lum, who researches extensively on Hong Kong food culture and is the director of graduate studies in communication at William Paterson University, says part of the company's success in Hong Kong is due to the fact that it has become a "glocal" chain - a global brand adapted to local...