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Anthropomorphism isn't, after all, just for laypeople. Primatologist Jane Goodall broke with convention and gave her chimps names quite deliberately. "I don't think people would have been as interested if [chimp] David Graybeard had been No. 29," she told USA Today. Sentiment is not a bad trait in...
The announcements were made at the group’s annual convention in Washington, D.C. last week. Staff members of the Washington Post served as judges for this year’s competition, ACP contest coordinator Marisa M. Dobson said.
These days, it seems that many Washington insiders are confused about the controversial interrogation tactic known as waterboarding. During his Senate confirmation hearings, Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey was unwilling to take a stance on the procedure since he didn’t “know what�...
That last week’s Nobel Peace Prize went to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Al Gore ’69 emphasizes that a cooperative response to global warming is a priority worldwide. The U.S. must recognize this and practice the environmentalism that it preaches. When the...
The go-slow idea was what grabbed the headlines out of a sweeping new agenda set out by the SPD at a convention this weekend. Since Merkel edged into a power at the head of a "grand coalition" of the CDU and the SPD two years ago, the Social Democrats...