Word: interact
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Danielle's parents had adopted Stacy. Lewis wanted to observe how two sisters of similar age and upbringing, but totally different genes, would interact with their parents. All four started by playing with toys and puzzles in front of Lewis' mirror. The parents left, first individually, then together. The girls resorted to playing with each other. Then a stranger entered, and that seemed to make the girls more sharply aware of their parents' absence and their own aloneness-hence the outburst of tears. But why is that "great" or "fantastic"? "We're trying to determine exactly...
...French philosophy professor who wrote Mother Love: Myth and Reality. But even if a mother's nurturing is an instinct, it requires some experience as well, and if the ability is entirely a learned trait, it is sometimes none too well learned. To check on how consciously mothers interact with their babies, Psychiatrist Daniel Stern of the Cornell University Medical Center has been observing nearly 100 mothers playing with infants eight to twelve months old. "Whenever we notice that the baby has put on an emotional expression that the mother has seen, we look at how she responded...
...adopt. Experience has shown that whenever large numbers of persons of different racial backgrounds live and work together, there will likely be misunderstandings, tensions, and conflicts. Al institutions should establish some agency whose programs and policies seek to improve racial understanding, to encourage persons of different racial backgrounds to interact around mutual interests with the aim of reducing racial hostilities. This is not the role that "Third World centers" (whatever they may be) have established for themselves. For a variety of reasons the Faculty and Administration of the University decided not to establish a "Third World center." It should...
Aside from a couple of dull reunions in the 21st century, the main result of the revised program, says Goldhaber, will be dentists who can "interact on a level that straight dental technology does not provide." As Goldhaber sees it, dental medicine should eventually become "a hybrid--combining the art and science of dentistry with biomedical research or with knowledge of health-care delivery systems." In short, the school now seeks to train practitioners whose skills encompass not only dentistry but also the broader field of social medicine...
...their social life around the water cooler. The company decided to ask them to the office for lunch and meetings every week. "People are like ants, they're communal creatures," says Dean Scheff, chairman and founder of CPT Corp., a word-processing firm near Minneapolis. "They need to interact to get the creative juices , flowing. Very few of us are » hermits...