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...study is the first to demonstrate that animals other than primates experience envy, which has long been considered an emotion that requires self-consciousness. "It gets very exciting if you can find a bit more primitive behavior in another species that's not a primate - maybe [that behavior] is not uniquely human," says Friederike Range, principle author of the study. (See pictures of presidential First Dogs...
...specialists is that publicizing the behavior could exacerbate the problem. In a study of self-injury among adolescents conducted earlier this year, Nock found that 38% of teens who injured themselves learned of the practice from friends, while 13% first heard about it through the media. It's a bit of a catch-22, says Nock. "On the one hand, it's very helpful and useful for health professionals to communicate with each other and learn how to proceed when they see [these cases]," he says, "but we know that media coverage of self-injurious behavior influences rates of self...
...this month's ASEAN Football Championship, also known as the Suzuki Cup, which Thailand is co-hosting with Indonesia. Before taking the job, he had only visited Thailand twice. He first went in 1984 with Everton, which had just won the F.A. Cup. He was 28. "It was a bit of a piss-up," he recalls, "but we played a couple of matches." Two decades of breakneck growth has transformed Bangkok, although for Reid some things have stayed the same. "Don't talk to me about the f___ing traffic," he growls...
...economic growth will China maintain its momentum. "The [global slump] is absolutely accelerating the fundamental changes that were already taking place," says Daniel Rosen, a principal at the Rhodium Group, a New York City - based economic-consulting firm. "The Chinese may have understandably felt entitled to relax a bit after 30 years of wrenching change. Unfortunately, they...
...transition sounds straightforward enough. "We've become a big economy," says Wang Zhenzhong, an adviser to the Chinese government and director of the economic-research institute at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). "Now, we need to become a strong economy." In a nutshell, this means becoming a bit more like Japan by developing domestic, technologically formidable manufacturers, rather than just making a lot of inexpensive stuff for the rest of the world. It also means becoming a bit more like the U.S., where factory jobs have over the years been supplanted by the growth of the service sector...