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...Although I loved the comprehensive yet easy-to-follow setup, I wasn't as blown away by the remote in action. Buttons were not always grouped perfectly; I sometimes had to jump around to find the commands I needed. Worse, my Scientific Atlanta cable box frequently requires the use of selection buttons labeled A, B and C, and those buttons did not translate to the RC9800i. There is a way to add the commands, but they wouldn't appear where I want them, and wouldn't be labeled correctly...
...Menino, elected to the city council in 1983, has kept his number listed ever since. The mayors of Minneapolis, Minn., and San Antonio, Texas, can be found in the phone book, and so can the top executives of smaller towns like Topeka, Kans., and Fargo, N.D. If you ring Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin, you just may get her mother, Ruth White, who calmly refers irate callers to city hall. Says White: "I think most people just want somebody to listen to them." --By Elspeth Reeve
...monkeys, dolphins, birds and even rats--possess not just raw emotions but also subtler and more sophisticated mental states, including envy, empathy, altruism and a sense of fairness. "They have the ingredients we use for morality," says Frans de Waal, a professor of primate behavior at Emory University in Atlanta, referring to the monkeys and chimps he studies...
Study after study bears him out. In one of De Waal's experiments at Atlanta's Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, for example, pairs of capuchin monkeys (the species favored by organ grinders) have to cooperate in dragging a heavy tray so they can get the food on it. They quickly figure out how to do so, sharing the effort and the food. But when the food is placed on one side of the tray, giving only one monkey access to it, they still share. "There is no need for the one who gets all the food...