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...animals do experience joy, sadness, anger and fear--because the wiring of the brain is set up to generate those feelings. (Actually, Panksepp discovered a few years ago that rats chirp in laughter, albeit in response to tickling, and in a register too high for the human ear to detect.) Nobody has yet found the neurocircuits for ethics or morality, however, so Panksepp is reluctant to comment about those qualities. But he does accept that some animals have strict rules of behavior. "Cockroaches probably don't have a sense of justice," says Panksepp. But dogs and rats, which are social...
...campaign had gained new urgency with the Madrid bombings. Last week we were reminded that the populist strategy has its limitations. And so, the day after the bombings, London introduced controversial body-scan machines at the entrances to some subway stations. The machines see through clothing and detect anything that interferes with solar radiation reflected by people's bodies. But it will cost tens of millions of dollars to outfit every tube station. And it will, of course, do nothing to protect the sprawling bus system...
...exactly one month earlier, at a regular briefing with corporate executives and managers of critical infrastructure systems, MI5, Britain's domestic intelligence agency, had downgraded its threat alert to the lowest level since Sept. 11, 2001. An aide to Blair, asked about the failure of the security services to detect the plot, said, "There will be a time to ask questions about what happened. But for now we need to let the security services get on with the very big job they have...
Inevitably, perhaps, these determined efforts to reverse a serious problem have upset some workers and sparked lawsuits and other actions. Many workers who fail drug tests insist that an error has been made, arguing that careers can be ruined over such a mistake. Others object because the tests detect traces of drugs lingering in the body that may have no effect on job performance. According to Dr. Reynold Schmidt, corporate medical director for Unocal, regular users of marijuana, for instance, can test positive in some urinalysis screenings three months or more after their last smoke...
...powered Vinson (91,487 tons), commissioned in 1982. Each carrier can launch a mix of planes for self-defense and hitting enemy targets. The Vinson, for example, carries 24 F-14 fighters and 38 A-6E and A-7E attack planes, as well as four E-2C Hawkeyes to detect incoming enemy planes, four EA-6B Prowlers to jam enemy radar and radio, six SH-3 helicopters and ten S-3 Vikings for antisubmarine warfare. By 1991, Secretary Lehman is all but assured of having three new Nimitz-class nuclear carriers. Lehman makes clear that he wants a carrier force...