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...Dutch court placed a 13-year-old girl in temporary custody on Friday, Aug. 28, after her parents insisted on supporting her bid to become the youngest person to sail around the world solo. Laura Dekker, an avid sailor who was reportedly born on a yacht during her parents' own around-the-world trip, told Dutch television before the court handed down its decision that she simply wanted to "learn about the world and to live freely...
...reviewed. Had her plans not been put on hold, Dekker, whose trip would take two years, would have been on track to shatter the world record for the youngest solo trip around the world, which was broken on Thursday by Mike Perham, 17, from the U.K. But now the Dutch court will have to judge just how young is too young to face the physical and emotional strain of setting out alone on the high seas. (See pictures of an eco-voyage to the seven continents...
Five years after Chartrand and Bargh's paper was published, a team of Dutch researchers expanded on the findings in an article in Psychological Science. The Dutch team not only replicated the earlier research but also found that people become more altruistic after they have been imitated. Mimicked participants in the Dutch study, which was conducted in the same way as the Chartrand and Bargh study, were willing to help a researcher who had "accidentally" dropped some pens 84% of the time; those in the control group helped pick up the pens only 48% of the time. The Dutch team...
Mimicry "may have adaptive value," the Dutch team concluded, "enhancing the chances of successful procreation of those members of a species who adopt this specific behavior...
...statue had been in grave danger before. In the late 17th century, the Protestant Dutch tried to eradicate the Roman Catholicism brought to the island by the Portuguese. The Virgin Mother had been moved from the shrine then as well and secreted away. In the 21st century, the statue shared the fate of many Sri Lankans, becoming a refugee as it was carried from church to church until July 2008, when it was in a more secure spot. By November, it was once again at the shrine, ready for the outpouring of piety during this year's Feast...