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Toward that goal, Terrace, with Laura Petitto, a student assistant, and other trainers, put Nim through 44 months of intensive sign-language drill, while treating him much as they would a child. In some ways the chimp was an apt student, learning, for example, to "sign" dirty when he wanted to use the potty or drink when he spotted someone sipping from a Thermos. Nonetheless, Nim never mastered even the rudiments of grammar or sentence construction. His speech, unlike that of children, did not grow in complexity. Nor did it show much spontaneity; 88% of the time he "talked" only...
Howard Baker would have a car by 1990 that would run on something besides gasoline, and he would have clustered nuclear plants producing power far from population centers. The environmental problems that can be calculated right now are staggering. Those unseen are apt to be even greater...
...election nights, Pierre Trudeau usually has an apt quote in his pocket from the popular homily Desiderata ("Go placidly among the noise and haste"). But for his moment of triumph last week he borrowed from Robert Frost. As the cheers welled around him, the once and future Prune Minister quoted from Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening: "I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep...
...that Carter ever escapes press criticism. He has permanent antagonists among such deep-think columnists as Joseph Kraft and George F. Will (who believes Carter "may be the most dangerous President since James Buchanan"). To them, whatever Carter does in foreign policy is apt to be wrong, or if right, too late, or in any case erratic...
This combination of demonic and domestic is apt, since Le Gum, 50, has spent much of her life successfully balancing the two. The only daughter of Anthropologist Alfred L. Kroeber, Ursula grew up in a lively intellectual home. Her three older brothers all became college professors, and her mother Theodora wrote nonfiction books, chiefly on the American Indian. The little girl turned into an avid reader and writer; her tastes in both ran to the exotic or bizarre. The first story she can remember completing told of a man who was eaten by elves. As her manuscripts began piling...