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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that the seniors, and newly elected members, can properly reflect on these questions, consider what we currently know about chicken behavior, emotion and thought. Chickens live in large social groups and form complex dominance hierarchies whereby high-ranking animals out-compete low-ranking animals for access to valued resources. Chickens have a complex vocal repertoire consisting of approximately 25-30 different vocalizations. Within this repertoire, they have one call for aerial predators and one for ground predators. They also have food calls, and scientists have discovered that these vocalizations function like our words--they refer to objects and events...

Author: By Marc D. Hauser, | Title: Final Club Fowls | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

...chance meeting with opponent Darling near Wigglesworth Hall, the two candidates are so anxious to move on that Darling helps Driskell place her posters so he can expedite his access to the board...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Stumped:Candidates Go the Distance | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

...report also recommends improving access to mental health services--efforts that UHS Director David S. Rosenthal '59 said his organization has already begun to implement...

Author: By Rosalind S. Helderman and Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Report Finds Mental Health Services Lacking | 12/9/1999 | See Source »

...today, the World Wide Web is going to start living up to its name. That's the word from President Clinton, who on Thursday announced his goal to improve Internet access in minority communities. According to a 1999 Commerce Department report, there is a so-called "digital divide" in America, with blacks and Hispanics having sharply lower access than their white counterparts. And, says TIME technology writer Joshua Quittner, Clinton's interest will draw much-needed attention to the problem. "This is good stuff - precisely the kind of thing the President ought to be doing," says Quittner. "Americans are guaranteed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Now, Minorities Are Falling Through the Net | 12/9/1999 | See Source »

...whites own computers, but fewer than half as many blacks do. And, according to the study, it's not just economics that's keeping computers out of reach for so many minority kids. A child from a low-income white family is three times more likely to have Internet access than a child from a black family with a comparable income - and four times more likely than a Hispanic child. That disparity, says TIME columnist Jack White, is due to the fact that being poor affects low-income black children's lives in a more broad-reaching way than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Now, Minorities Are Falling Through the Net | 12/9/1999 | See Source »

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