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...December says he continues to suffer from seizures and spastic reactions in the muscles of his left leg. His butlers, says one of them, pushed him around his houses in a wheelchair and changed his stainless-steel bedpans when they were full. Uday slept in a twin-size metal-frame hospital bed attended not by fawning women but by a full-time physiotherapist and a butler who says that when he helped him put on his socks each day, Uday screamed in agony...
...argued that it was impossible to learn human language by trial and error alone; human beings must come already equipped with an innate grammatical skill. Harry Harlow did a simple experiment that showed that a baby monkey prefers a soft, cloth model of a mother to a hard, wire-frame mother, even if the wire-frame mother provides it with all its milk; some preferences are innate...
...hair in pigtails and, when given the choice, prefers noodles to rice. Last Friday, she stood behind her father fidgeting with her face mask and staring at the swarm of photographers who surrounded her and at the smiling face of her mother who looked down from a picture frame hanging in a Taipei funeral parlor. Her mother was nurse Chen Ching-chiu, who died in the line of duty at the age of 48 and has become a touchstone for Taiwan's heartbreak and frustration at the government's inability to curb the spread of the virus...
...into the veins of society." The book ends when Satrapi is sent off by her parents to Austria, where she will find herself free but utterly alone. (A sequel about this excruciating adjustment is out in France and set for release in English in September 2004.) In the last frame, Satrapi looks back one last time to see her mother, a rock of a woman, fainting in her father's arms. When Satrapi visited Iran in 2000, she was impressed with the changes. They were small, but then Satrapi is a student of details. "Probably I will not see Iran...
...investment 25% for a new model and allow for efficiently altering the model mix based on changes in demand. At Toyota's operation in Princeton, Ind., a single line cranks out the full-size Sequoia SUV and Sienna minivan. What's novel: the Sequoia is built on a frame, while the Sienna, as a "unibody" vehicle, isn't. Toyota's line is the first in North America to assemble such fundamentally different vehicles. By 2005, five of Toyota's nine U.S. lines will produce multiple models, accounting for 71% of the automaker's North American volume, according to analyst Michael...