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...treat. The children learned by watching, and opened it as the adults did. The apes tended to just chew the tube open. In another, researchers would hide the treat while the test subjects were present. Then the subjects would have to find it, with the only clue being that the scientists would look toward the hiding place. Again, the kids beat the apes soundly...
...negligible." Yet last week, BNP had to shut down three of its own investment funds because of its exposure to investments linked to the subprime debacle. When the CEO doesn't know, that is the very definition of "not knowing what we don't know." "No one has a clue what they're sat on," says Gabriel Stein, chief international economist at Lombard Street Research in London. Dutch and German banks recently admitted that these bad debts had dented their earnings as well. And there's probably more bad news to come, says Stein: "It's noticeable that no British...
...Resurrecting a Dead Language Lisa Takeuchi Cullen wants a return to the Latin Mass because she is unhappy with Roman Catholic teachings and would like to escape back to a time when those in the pew had no clue [Aug. 6]. The allure of Mass is not in language but in the celebration itself. Cullen should savor the fact that she can understand what is being said in English and disagree with it. The church should maintain the common language of the people, because it is their faith that makes the church more of a community than an institution. Josh...
...bone after showing in 2002 how leptin, a hormone secreted by fat cells, influences bone formation. Leptin is best known as a regulator of body weight and appetite. Karsenty reasoned that if fat influences bone, then the reverse must be true. And, he says, there was another clue to the relationship: "We were using the observation that obese people are [relatively] protected from osteoporosis...
...that memory is made up of many different components--long and short term, episodic (that is to say, memories of events) and fact based, and that it takes place in different parts of the brain--McHugh's research, first reported in the online edition of Science, adds another intriguing clue to the phenomenon...