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...directly, but Hare's grew out of his research on chimpanzee cognition in the late 1990s, when he was part of a team of primatologists led by Michael Tomasello, now at Max Planck. A chimp can follow the gaze of other chimps and figure out what they can and cannot see. That's a skill that seems to be limited to great apes and humans. Tomasello and his team wondered if such a rare ability extended to hand gestures and tested chimps to see if they could understand pointing. To their surprise, the chimps did badly, able to learn...
...Karzai could instead be remembered as the leader who drove away international support and plunged his country into chaos. Americans, tiring of bad news from Afghanistan, are asking why the U.S. should pour more troops in if they cannot make any headway against the Taliban and al-Qaeda or send billions more dollars if they vanish into the baggy pockets of Kabul officials...
...effect. When you pull it out, the water returns to its original state. While we occupy those countries, we suffer casualties and financial disaster. Once we leave, everything will return to the way it was before: tribal wars, Muslim traditions and culture. We will have accomplished nothing. You cannot change thousand-year-old cultures into democratic states in a few years. It takes decades, even centuries for cultures to evolve into advanced political systems. Frosty Wooldridge, GOLDEN, COLO...
...motivation, but this satisfaction could find other outlets. Join a sports team, play intramurals, or start a pickup basketball game. While the attitude of an incessant need to be better than everyone else is arguably justifiable in academics, where leadership positions are limited and internships are competitive, it cannot be translated into fitness...
...Michael [Capuano] has a sustained, principled irreverence, and I cannot think of anything the United States Senate needs more at this time,” said Frank...