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...birds, says Dan Blumstein, a former student of Bekoff's, now studying animal behavior at UCLA. While he hasn't addressed the question through formal research, Blumstein has seen hints of behavioral rules in songbirds. A given species tends to have similar songs but with local "dialects" that vary from one territory to another. If a bird sings with a nonlocal accent, he says, "everybody knows: 'Oh, my God, there's an invader.' Then they get upset and kick it out." The question, Blumstein says, is whether that's a sign of ethics or just instinct...
...DAN ZANES AND FRIENDS: HOUSE PARTY The Muppet-haired guitarist of '80s indie-rock band the Del Fuegos now makes eclectic folk rock for kids. House Party combines covers of the familiar (Jamaica Farewell) and the obscure (the rollicking Tennessee Wig Walk) with crafty originals, like the R&B-inflected House Party Time. And the cast of surprise guests, such as Deborah Harry and Bob Weir, will give you an excuse to inflict Blondie and Grateful Dead albums on your children later...
Paul Gilligan, my brother Daniel Seltzer and I used to joke, was the ultimate “golden boy.” It was an expression Dan and I had coined at Harvard, mostly for Paul, to describe someone who was the apple of his family’s eye, someone who carried the hopes of many on his shoulders, and someone who wore his enormous potential with a winning smile and an easy heart. He was the kind of person who, when he shook his hair, sent a shower of soft light into the world...
...cancer; in Hermosa Beach, Calif. The first female staff writer at LIFE, she became a household name for her verbal sparring with conservative James Kilpatrick on Point/Counterpoint, a segment on TV's 60 Minutes in the 1970s that was often parodied by Saturday Night Live's Jane Curtin and Dan Aykroyd...
There's much more to this richly detailed, sometimes humorous film: Tom undertakes an affair with his best friend's wife (Aure Atika); he and his Chinese piano coach (Linh Dan Pham) fall in love despite the fact that they don't share a language; he manages to profoundly imperil his father when he screws up an attempt to collect a debt from a Russian crime lord...