Word: aping
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SOCIOBIOLOGICAL. Jealousy is in the genes because it is evolutionarily adaptive. The ape (or human) who chases off a rival enhances his chances to get his genes into the next generation. Males are jealous because they can never be sure of paternity; females, because they need males to help protect the young. Says Rutgers Anthropologist Lionel Tiger: "Eternal vigilance is the price of sexual confidence...
Give Nintendo credit: it will try anything to help you get your game on, and if that means hooking up a pair of bongo drums to a game console, so be it. Pound the skins to control a feisty ape that jumps, runs, flips and fights his way through a fantasy landscape. For primo side-scroller action, fast, fluid and nonstop, Jungle Beat is unbeatable. (For Nintendo GameCube; $54.99 with bongos, $39.99 without...
While an East Asian Languages and Civilizations concentrator at Harvard, Marx spent two summers studying pop culture in Japan. While there, he worked for a Japanese fashion magazine and eventually focused his senior thesis on the cultural influences of trendy Japanese clothing line “A Bathing Ape...
...GORILLA FLASHING Three women are suing Koko's handlers in California for pressuring them to submit to the ape's sign-language requests to see their breasts...
...seen last week in the reactions of the presidential hopefuls. Most Republicans expressed anger that Perot might again, as in 1992, draw votes away from their nominee and thus help Bill Clinton. At the same time, though, candidates Lamar Alexander and Pat Buchanan--and President Clinton--tried to ape Perot's independent appeal by distancing themselves from the congressional "insiders" who dominate their respective parties...