Word: branch
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...performance must have impressed Hong Kong businessman Michael Ying, who controlled Esprit's Asia business. The Asian branch acquired the European outfit in 1997, and Ying later made Krogner global CEO. Krogner then exported his plan to Asia. Esprit has a strong presence in China, with 69 stores operated through a joint venture. Last year Esprit opened its first store in India, through a local franchisee...
...With getting your feet planted on firm academic ground no longer a pressing necessity, take this time to sink deeper into an extracurricular. Branch out and try something new—you made it through the first semester okay...
...created three films for the IVR-Cave: two for speech therapy patients about ordering food at a McDonald's counter and drive-through, and a third for speech pathology students, about diagnosing a child with a communication disorder and better communicating themselves with the parents. Each film contains multiple branch points, where a therapist can choose how the scenario will proceed depending on the patient's response. For example, if the patient is acting up, the McDonald's employee may go and get the manager, while if the customer is seriously stuttering, the worker may smirk or laugh...
...perhaps too good to be true. Doubts were raised from the start about whether the findings really represented an unknown branch on the human family tree, but none of the opponents had a chance to base their critiques from first-hand examinations of the Flores bones. That changed in a paper published in the current issue of the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). A team of researchers from the U.S., Indonesia and Australia report on their own investigation of the Flores bones and conclude that the so-called hobbit isn't a separate species, but just...
...doesn't keep long in a tropical environment. What's certain is that the scientific stakes are extremely high: if the Flores find is really a separate species, then the history of human evolution will have to be rewritten. Instead of automatically evolving toward bigger brains, at least one branch of humanity would seem to have evolved in reverse. Though each side is utterly convinced - as Eckhardt puts it: "We will be substantially right, and they will be substantially wrong," - the issue will probably be fought in open scientific combat for some time. And one gets the sense that...