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...fight or mate with others, but if they do that enough, they can't get other animals to play." Does that behavior rise to the level of ethics or morality? If morality is simply living by the rules of a society, says hyena expert Christine Drea of Duke University, then yes, animals do that. But just because animals have rules and bad things can happen when those aren't followed, she says, "doesn't mean they're ethical creatures...
...sportsmanship: comedians. The agency said it would sue the ImprovOlympic--a 24-year-old Chicago club that launched comics Mike Myers, Tina Fey and Andy Dick--if it doesn't change its name. "It is confusing," says Dick. "I wandered in there with my discus once." Rather than duke it out over the trademark of the word olympic, the club and its L.A. outpost will now be called I.O. The seven dirty words, luckily for the comics, are still public domain...
...growing number of chief executives, including the heads of major utilities, who think carbon caps are both inevitable and a feasible response to global warming--a condition that nearly every scientist in the world not working for the White House believes is occurring. The CEO of Duke Energy, for one, has called for an economy-wide carbon tax. Asked if he supports Kyoto, Immelt replied, "I'm not going to advocate one way or the other," although setting CO2 caps would stimulate the market for Immelt's cleaner-burning--and pricier--turbines...
...your soul you know that a dog can be trained, and you think, Well, no, not a fox. So when you see a fox run and stop exactly where you've told it to stop, you go, For f____'s sake, that is amazing." O'Toole, as the imperious duke who buys Lassie from a struggling coal-mining family and takes the dog away to his Scottish manse, is not as easy to control, but he is a significantly better quote. With little prompting, he tells stories about growing up near the Yorkshire Dales ("We used...
...because of his age and accomplishments, he tends to get typecast in boringly prestigious movie roles, such as Priam in 2004's Troy. "I spent the film slithering around in a piece of old chiffon," he says sadly. Sturridge wrote the part of Lassie's duke to give O'Toole a chance to let loose again. "I wanted a character who was both exciting to children and at the same time dangerous," says Sturridge. "I had Peter in mind, and it has been great to see him use his anarchic energy again." O'Toole appreciates the opportunity but understands that...