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...grasslands and bushes and things like this, and eating a lot of fruits and berries coming off low bushes, there is a hell of an advantage to be able to reach higher. That's why the gerenuk [a type of antelope] evolved its long neck and stands on its hind legs, and why the giraffe evolved its long neck. There's strong pressure to be able to reach a wider range of levels...
...Moments after the photo was taken, he was killed in the cross fire. Several weeks into the contest, however, a wave of Web surfers, spurred by mass e-mails among Israeli sympathizers, swamped the site with votes for cute-animal photos. (A crippled puppy using a wheeled cart for hind legs took the top spot.) The site canceled the contest last month on the ground that people were voting more than once...
...crowded city-and certainly not with its teeth removed, subsisting on bread and milk and fettered by a painful noose through its nose. They shouldn't behave like Girdhari Lal, a bear who knows all the standard stunts. How does a movie heroine walk? The bear stands on his hind legs and sways seductively. A hero? The bear swaggers. Show us how to smoke a cigarette? The beast puffs on a bamboo stick. And are you going to claw these nice people watching you? He shakes his head. "These animal rights people don't understand," says Girdhari Lal's owner...
South Africa was dress rehearsal for Gandhi's great cause, independence for India. From the day he arrived back home at 45, he dedicated himself to "Hind swaraj," Indian self-rule. More than independence, it meant a utopian blend of national liberty, individual self-reliance and social justice. Freedom entailed individual emancipation as well, the search for nobility of soul through self-discipline and denial. Most ordinary Indians, though, were just looking for an end to colonial rule. While his peace-and-love homilies may not have swayed them, they followed him because he made the British tremble...
...work, described in last week's Nature, centers on so-called T-box genes. Common to all vertebrates, including humans, they're important in the development of limbs in the embryo--determining, for example, whether they become hind- or forelimbs (or in chickens, legs or wings). But, says geneticist Juan Carlos Belmonte, the study's senior scientist, "we didn't know if one of these genes by itself was sufficient to send a limb down one pathway or the other...