Word: idealizations
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...given his previous findings on the issue, his hunch is that television probably isn't the ideal medium for promoting real interaction between parent and child. If it were, he argues, then the net effect of having the TV on, whether in the foreground or in the background as noise, would have been richer and would have led to more sustained exchanges and conversations...
...come and fight, they should fight them face to face," says Mahmood Shah, a retired brigadier who was once the top Pakistani official in FATA. Shah, a Pashtun himself, says the families of the drones' victims are required under the tribal code to seek revenge, which makes them ideal recruits for militant leaders like Baitullah Mehsud, the Pashtun commander of the Pakistani Taliban. Mehsud, says Shah, "likes to boast that each drone attack brings him three or four suicide bombers...
...drones are far from infallible, however. They can survey only small patches of territory at a time, and it would take thousands of them to cover every nook and cranny of Pakistan's long frontier. Several crashes have been reported. Thermal cameras are notoriously imperfect. Even under ideal conditions, images can be blurry. In one of several stills from drone video seen by TIME, it's hard to tell if a group of men is kneeling in prayer or the men are militants in battle formation. "The basic problem with all aerial reconnaissance is that it's subject to error...
...children he meets, he is their version of the ideal, engaging in their playground games so effortlessly and with such prowess that he becomes legendary...
...also flashed potential.Suter and Hulse especially impressed near the end of the season, leaving Harvard optimistic about boasting a formidable rotation next year.“I thought the freshmen did a great job,” senior Tom Stack-Babich said. “It was pretty impressive. Ideally you wouldn’t like to have a bunch of freshmen out there learning on the go. It wasn’t the best for us this year, but it certainly should help the program.”As rookies defined the Crimson’s pitching, Harvard?...