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...Palin, Bristol • various silly explanations for origin of first name of are offered by eternally truth-bending mother...
...businessmen like Rosenberg have recently been spurred on by a growing global market for fine, dark, single-origin (unblended with other varieties) chocolate. Europe and the U.S. account for an almost 40% increase in demand in the past three years. The challenge for Rosenberg and other criollo growers now is to make the plantations viable enterprises. Yet modernity hasn't quite arrived at the Monterosa hacienda, set in the tropical forest of the Henri Pittier National Park. Workers here are drying cacao much the same way they have for 250 years...
This question has occupied many scientists. Darwin wrote a long, highly entertaining 1872 book, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, that came to the conclusion - unsurprising, given the author - that the universality of facial expressions owed to their evolutionary origin...
Beyond that, what the genetic origin of facial expressions suggests is that the way your face looks is strongly related to what you are feeling inside. What I began to wonder was whether the train might run in the opposite direction: Could you change what you're feeling inside by pulling your face into a different expression? This is what the trainer had suggested: my exercises would be easier if I kept my face passive rather than twisted...
...strips would soon go on sale in European shops. But King Features, which holds Popeye's rights, says that's nonsense. Even if the copyright does expire, a spokesman for King Features told TIME, the company still holds rights to Popeye through trademark. Trademark, which protects works of "unique origin," is a similar protection to copyright but with different rules governing expiration. In a statement, the spokesman said, "[Use of Popeye's image] is an infringement of the rights afforded by the trademark registrations. King Features will vigilantly protect its trademark rights in the Popeye character...