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...seems unfazed by such skepticism. Interviewed in his antique-filled Beijing office, he responds with a calm smile. "Just because we don't know what term was used for God, and have no evidence of a word having been used at a certain time, doesn't mean it wasn't used." He says "the Great Qing Sea" was the mapmaker's way of avoiding the taboo of appearing loyal to the previous dynasty. Liu has submitted a sample of the map for carbon dating, but has not yet received the results. Still, even if the bamboo paper's age checks...
Harper's shrewdest move has been to distance himself from the U.S. After a Dec. 2 Op-Ed piece in the Washington Times said Harper's election would "put a smile on President George W. Bush's face," Harper wrote a letter to the editor pointing out the differences between his policies and those of the Bush Administration. And when the Liberals released the TV spots playing up Harper's supposed love affair with U.S. conservatives, the Tories returned fire, issuing a press release that chided their opponents for resorting to "American-style" campaign tactics. Canada's conservatives have learned...
...career as an artist making video installations. Cailin O’Connor ’05, however, had finished all her work and related the joy of turning in her final assignment. “I turned in my last paper and without even thinking about it a smile was on my face,” she said. “I literally skipped three blocks, was watching bad T.V. shows, and thinking to myself ‘Oh My God, I’m done!’” —Staff writer Doris A. Hernandez...
...hint of nostalgic, antiacademic languor at this stage as well may match the grader’s own mood: “It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists—at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous—that smile as we may at its follies, or denounce its barbarities, the truly monumental achievements of the Middle Ages have become too vast for us to cope with or even understand; we are too small and too afraid.” Let me offer this as an ideal opening sentence...
...cognitive sciences at M.I.T. "They're incredibly sensitive to human action and to intentional acts in the world. They watch what people are doing to learn causal connections." Babies will grab the same object over and over, replicating experiences, testing them out, conducting their own experiments. If I smile, will Mommy smile back? Providing babies with consistent actions and reactions helps them make sense of their world and the people...