Word: bracelets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...managed to teach a hulking female gorilla named Koko more than 400 signs. According to Patterson, the gifted ape then proceeded to higher linguistic levels by using word combinations to insult her trainers (You nut), compose rhymes (bear hair, squash wash) and invent metaphors (eye hat for mask, finger bracelet for ring...
...Hebron on Israel's occupied West Bank, a three-doctor panel at Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital authorized the transplant of his kidneys to save two patients. Many Israelis were incensed that one of the recipients was a twelve-year-old Arab girl wearing a Palestine Liberation Organization bracelet, but the transplant particularly offended many Orthodox Jews. To them, religious law forbids tampering with corpses in any way, either by transplants or autopsies, and last week they pursued their campaign to outlaw autopsies. The hard-liners are also infuriated at Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren, who decreed that...