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...thrilled by the new opportunities that 2010-2011 will offer us. We will be based in Cambridge UK. Our expected highlights for the year will include two months spent living with Hadza hunter-gatherers in the savanna of northern Tanzania, an extended conference in Japan, touring in central Tanzania, and of course time in Uganda with Elizabeth’s Kasiisi schools project and Richard’s chimpanzee studies. Richard also hopes to edit a book on chimpanzee behavioral ecology, and make headway on a book about violence...
However, while the movie may be a bit too heavy-handed at times, the emotional core of the film is both unexpected and effective. Surprisingly, the central focus is not on Parker and Dan’s relationship, but instead on the evolution of Parker and Joe’s friendship. Joe, disgruntled that Parker monopolized Dan’s time since they started dating, resents her presence. While stuck in the chair lift, the two are forced to grow and support each other. The two develop genuine rapport with one another, and it is surprisingly touching...
...right to collect information it deems to be a threat to the American public is vested in President Ronald Reagan’s executive order on Dec. 4, 1981—the order allows certain federal agencies, such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency, to gather information they deem to be a threat to national security. Indeed, China’s censorship put at stake some human rights activists and companies in the United States, and so it is appropriate for the NSA to be involved...
...little e-flyer about "Wellness Week," whose theme, conceived with utmost originality, is "Finding Balance and Happiness." Why? Because, you know, that’s what one does in California. Find balance and happiness. But the best part of this otherwise eye-roll inducing event is the central image on the flier—sea lions! Really! Don’t they look relaxed...
...work of wild-eyed, drug-induced shamans - which has been a leading theory for decades - but that the ancient images were deliberate studies of the stars and served as integral components of the Chumash people's annual calendar. "This gives us an insight into what the indigenous people of Central California were doing," says Saint Onge, who published his theory last fall in the Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology. "It wasn't just the daily simpleton tasks of hunter-gatherers. They were actually monitoring the stars." (See the Native American struggle to regain control of their legacy...