Word: haring
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...study published in last week’s issue of Science, fifth-year graduate student Brian A. Hare and Michelle Brown ’01 explored why dogs are so much better than other animals at understanding human hand and facial cues—better even than our own ancestors, chimpanzees...
Finally, there's the question of what makes people and dogs such inseparable friends. Using a number of behavioral experiments--most of them involving finding food hidden in scent-camouflaged boxes--a team headed by anthropologist Brian Hare of Harvard compared the ability of wolves, adult dogs and puppies to pick up subtle cues in human behavior. Both puppies and dogs showed a talent for finding the food using nonverbal signals from the researchers--even something as subtle as gazing toward the hiding place. That doesn't surprise Nicholas Dodman, director of the Animal Behavior Clinic at Tufts University School...
...mysteries are settled, of course, and Hare and other behaviorists are trying to devise tests to peer yet deeper into canine cognition. The geneticists too are sharpening their tools, looking to more powerful gene probes--eventually even the complete sequences of the dog genome. Dog lovers, meanwhile, don't much care how the transition happened--just as long as it did. --Reported by Deirdre...
...Another two-character play, and the two women are the wife of a man who has just left her for a younger woman and the man's long-time mistress. Had anyone put this trope on stage before David Hare? A small, pretty, witty play given snap and stature by the presence of its stars, "The Breath of Life" reveals a major playwright in the narrowing career journey from the political epics of his early years to the intimate, no-less-barbed confrontations of "Amy's View" and this two-hander. Some theatergoers wanted to follow this trajectory; most wanted...
...past, I'd have thought, is that you always know what's going to happen. ... He's going to leave you." We've all done it: the perverse parsing of a doomed love affair, the endless replaying of a favorite movie with an unhappy ending. I'm grateful that Hare lived in these women's past long enough to report on the everyday anguish of living a half-life, then living alone...