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loris primitive primate, nocturnal and arboreal, insectivorous and without a tail; very slow moving and related to lemurs. Includes slender loris (Loris tardigradus), slow loris (Nycticebus coucang). How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Founded in the northern Italian city of Reggio Emilia by Loris Malaguzzi (1920-1994), the approach requires children to be seen as resourceful, competent, curious, imaginative and inventive, possessing a desire to interact and communicate with others. Loris Greaud's ghostly shadow play incorporated two works, Hors-Prises, 2005, a back-projected black-and-white video sequence with lamps going on and off, and The Big Bang Machine, 2005, a device whose vibrations were meant as a low-intensity reconstruction of the sound at the moment of the universe's creation. Archbishop Loris Capovila, secretary of the then-nuncio in France, said in the daily Avvenire on January 4, 2005 that the "attitude of the French Church and of Nuncio Roncalli was unequivocal: to save the lives of defenceless children, to give them safety with Catholic families who could care for them as their own children, and to return the little ones to their original families once the latter had come forward. |
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