Word: accountability
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...Wilson's study provides that account of animal suicide and many others - that of a canvasback duck, a cat, pelicans, scorpions - but intentionally doesn't address the issue of whether these animals or any others are technically capable of ending their own lives. Thomas Joiner, a Florida State University psychologist, does take that stand. His new book, Myths About Suicide, links the suicidal tendencies of living creatures. "Across nature there seems to be the same kind of calculation," says Joiner. "Is my death worth more than my life? Suicides of all kinds involve this calculation, from bacteria and insects...
...readable (much more so, frankly, than Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle), and reveals a Wallace forever struggling to reconcile his child-like sense of wonder at what he is seeing with the stiff-upper-lip expectations of his Victorian audience. Perhaps this conflict is best captured by his account of a previous expedition that ended disastrously when his ship home from Brazil caught fire in the middle of the Atlantic, leaving Wallace and ship's crew adrift in an open boat for ten days until rescue arrived. "During the night I saw several meteors, and in fact could...
...Taiwan case, according to the U.S. indictment, Portillo took three checks in 2000 from the Taiwanese government that were earmarked for Guatemala's Libraries for Peace program and deposited them in an account at Hamilton Bank in Miami that was held by a political supporter and friend. He then allegedly wired a chunk of it to an account at Washington-based Riggs Bank and later to a Paris bank account jointly held by his daughter and ex-wife. Portillo was indicted in New York City because some of the banks and branches he allegedly used were located there...
...Mike Michels, Toyota's vice president of communications, said the vehicle was examined by Toyota's engineers, who downloaded data from the vehicle, inspected it carefully and drove it through a series of tests. "There are strong indications that the driver's account of the event is inconsistent with the findings of the preliminary analysis," Michels said. (See more about the Toyota recall hearings on Capitol Hill...
...Monday's press briefing, the automaker raised several questions about Sikes' account. Michels said the car's accelerator pedal was found to work normally, as was the pushbutton power switch, which "shut the vehicle off when depressed for three seconds, as the 911 operator advised Mr. Sikes to do." Michels also said the car's gear-shift lever worked properly under testing...