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...experiment to compare the ape with a two-year-old girl named Alia in responding to commands expressed in 660 spoken English sentences. The sentences combined objects in ways that Kanzi and Alia were unlikely to have encountered before: "Put the melon in the potty," or "Go get the carrot that's in the microwave...
Back at the White House, the President hollered for Begala to gather "the kids," as Clinton refers to his thirtysomething gaggle of aides, and come up to the solarium for a party. By 11:30 p.m. Mrs. Clinton had said goodnight to Chelsea and joined the group. The carrot cake with cream-cheese frosting was all gone, and cherry pie had magically taken its place, like so much that happens in the White House. The President invited Begala to join him in the screening room for a movie, but in the interest of sleeping and getting packed for the road...
...just what kind of a choice is that? When women are desperate for money to help raise their children, the carrot of increased benefits for using Norplant becomes a stick, and choice becomes coercion, even extortion...
...when I began my third meditation of the weekend, my "monkey mind," as the monks call it, began to tone down. I was squirming and dreaming of their organic, vegan carrot soup instead of counting my breaths one through ten and getting lost somewhere around four...
Kissinger was right: deprived of both the carrot of economic aid and the stick of military retaliation, it was next to impossible to make the Vietnamese communists comply with the agreement. And he did work mightily -- and honorably -- with the few tools left at his disposal to pressure the communists to account for the missing servicemen. But in the end, he was undermined both by the nation's unwillingness to remain engaged in Indochina and by the furtive way he handled the negotiations that led to America's eagerly sought withdrawal from the region...