Word: mimics
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...baby engages in an astonishing range of social behaviors. Most will begin smiling back at a loved one in the first four months of life. Most will follow a parent's gaze with their own eyes by eight months. Most will also study a caregiver's facial expressions and mimic exhibits of fear, surprise or delight with their own tiny features. They will babble a conversation back and forth by nine months, respond to their names by 10 months, and begin to point to a desired toy or treat by around a year...
...From his very first book - 1957's The Mystic Masseur, about a deceitful guru - a dislike of fraudulence and "mimic men" has run through Naipaul's corpus, as it apparently does through his latest book, A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling. Naipaul's intention with this slim volume of essays is the continued unmasking of artifice and fabrication - not in a character or a society, but this time in writing. "There is a specificity to writing," Naipaul believes. "Certain settings, certain cultures, have to be written about in a certain way ... You cannot write about Nigerian tribal...
...compelled to marry his dead brother’s widow. Larose said homosexuals have been singled out and discriminated against on the basis of biblical texts deliberately used out of context. “There’s nothing that gay people do that heterosexuals cannot mimic,” he concluded. The workshop was organized by the Boston-Cambridge Ministry in Higher Education, a Protestant group that sponsors the chaplaincy of Harvard’s Rev. Carolyn Dittes. “I’m excited that we are affirming that it can be good to be both...
...video’s style takes pains to portray the rough underbelly of rap that no longer exists for some of its biggest stars, T.I. seems uncomfortable in a role he once played perfectly. Though he can swing a chain imposingly, threaten the camera with a bat, and mimic pulling out a gun, the actions seem unnatural and unthreatening. The company T.I. keeps is slightly more intimidating. Alfa Mega’s appearance is menacing and fits the lyrics well. Surely no one wants to meet him in a dark alley. Busta seems more fascinated by his blinged-out jewelry...
There are other collateral problems created by industrial scale aquaculture: the destruction of coastal habitats through waste disposal, the introduction of diseases and the possible escape of exotic species that can threaten indigenous breeds. Halweil says we need to farm fish in ways that more closely "mimic the oceans," combining multiple, complementary species, including "cleaner fish" to control sea lice, for instance, as some farms already do in Norway...