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...reach. And indeed, the kids were of an age - 2 1/2 years old - where it's widely known that they do perform about as well as chimps in such tests. So for example, the scientists would hide a treat of some kind - a toy, or some food - behind a box, while the test subjects looked on. The kids, chimps and orangs would have to be sophisticated enough to know that the object disappearing from view didn't mean it stopped existing, and had to be able to figure out where it had gone. All three groups did equally well...
...people in Hong Kong have any idea of the wastage that Yau's death represented. "I never thought that, 10 years later, I would be sitting here talking to someone about Yau Leung," says Ng from behind a box of his unpublished prints. But surely the time has come...
...would oversee a $285 million fund for the production and distribution of roughly 30 "Asian films" in total - that is, movies made in Asia, by Asian filmmakers, or about Asian subjects. The move is expected to help the Weinsteins make important savings at a time when North American box-office takings are flattening out and production costs are on the rise. (The Weinsteins' five-month-old Grindhouse cost $53 million to make, according to the brothers, but has earned just over half that at box offices worldwide...
...spoof such then new creations as newscasts and ads and employing visual effects like upside-down pictures and tilted sets to appear to defy gravity. Comedy is lying done amusingly, and Kovacs knew that TV--which purported to show all but hid everything beyond the outline of the box--was a divine medium for lies. Kovacs would have been a natural in the age of YouTube; instead he made TV into HimTube...
...over the Rams, was named to the College Soccer Division I National Team of the Week. Hoff’s goal came midway through the second half, when he juked two defenders to open up some space for himself at the top of the box. His left-footed shot was well out of the reach of the Rhode Island keeper. Chi was named the Ivy League Rookie of the Week after scoring a goal in the ninth minute of his collegiate debut. Chi was able to sneak in behind two defenders and one-touch a pass from sophomore Andr?...