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...confusion or surrender, probably because it lowers the head relative to the upper body, conveying submission. Yes or no head nods may go all the way back to infancy, as babies tend to search for the breast by moving their heads up and down and detach by moving side to side - effectively saying "yes, please" and "no more." Not every culture uses head nods this way, but they are thought to be the exception rather than the rule...
...fence that India is erecting [Feb. 16]. She fails to acknowledge that erecting the fence has reduced the flow of illegal migrants into India. I also couldn't understand the complaint about exporting cows. Respect for religious sentiments has to be a common goal, not simply accommodation from one side to facilitate the other. Girish Vaidya, AURANGABAD, INDIA
...later phases of the science center project. Though the vocal indignation of residents can seem off-putting, the university should recognize an important change in the message it is now receiving: Many Allston residents understand the positive value of Harvard’s developments on their side of the river, and they want Harvard to proceed with construction as scheduled. Allston residents are correct to be dismayed by the construction slowdown. The new science complex and the rest of the Allston project will benefit the university in a host of ways over the long run, but we can only receive...
...Smith said. He said that the worms’ victims can rectify the issue by clearing their browser cookies, changing their Gmail passwords, and restarting their browsers. ViddyHo.com also appears to have been taken offline. The inconvenience came on the same day that side effects from Google’s routine technical maintenance work left millions of Gmail users without service for over two hours. This was the worst outage to date for Gmail, which serves 113 million users worldwide, according to the Financial Times. Joshua A. Kroll ’09, former president of the Harvard Computer Society, said...
...getaway this year because of the economy." But her travel agency, Cruise Holidays, saw a deluxe cabin for a week in the Caribbean on a brand new ship, the Celebrity Solstice, at almost half price. For $1,100 per person, Yeary, who says she's never experienced the swank side of cruising, also gets a veranda, complimentary champagne, daily hors d'oeuvres and preferential treatment on shore excursions. "I wasn't expecting this," she says. "But it seems they have to do it to keep ships afloat in this scary state of affairs...