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Relatively Speaking: Carnegie Mellon and UC Berkeley Researchers Identify ...
MarketWatch (press release)
PITTSBURGH, May 24, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Different languages refer to family relationships in different ways. For example, English speakers use two terms -- grandmother and grandfather -- to refer to grandparents, while Mandarin Chinese uses ...

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Relatively speaking: Researchers identify principles that shape kinship ...
EurekAlert (press release)
PITTSBURGH—Different languages refer to family relationships in different ways. For example, English speakers use two terms — grandmother and grandfather — to refer to grandparents, while Mandarin Chinese uses four terms.

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Your Starbucks Coffee Just Got More Expensive, Relatively Speaking
DailyFinance
By Rich Smith, The Motley Fool How much would you pay for a cup of Starbucks (SBUX) coffee? Starbucks hopes it's a lot. And if it's not too much trouble, they'd also really rather you not do any comparison shopping before placing your order.

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Speaking Consciously in the Age of Twitter
Huffington Post (blog)
Relatively speaking, that is young, I know, but it is still always getting further and further away from the age of the high schoolers I teach every Sunday, and the b'nai mitzvah kids I help train each week. To them, 42 is old!


 
Your Weekend Cocktails: May 25-28
Palm Beach
By Stephen Brown This cocktail is a relatively simple with a rather complex ingredient, Moroccan Citrus Syrup—relatively speaking of course. Though this flavored simple syrup sounds exotic, Moroccan citrus syrup could not be more appropriate in the ...


 
Depression, Relatively Speaking
Wall Street Journal (blog)
A new study, highlighted by Neuroskeptic, underscores the importance of the relative evaluation of one's symptoms. Independent (within reason) of such symptoms, what counts is whether you believe you suffer from an abnormal amount of sadness, remorse, ...


 
Family labels framed similarly across cultures
Science News
By Bruce Bower Relatively Speaking Limits exist on how different languages define family relationships, a new study finds. English describes a mother's mother and a father's mother as “grandmother,” and a mother's father and a father's father as ...

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