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...Overall, Flo's brain shows the global neural reorganization that's a mark of advancing intelligence. What's striking about this relative sophistication is that it developed in such a small brain case. A prime indicator of increasing human intelligence has long been thought to be increasing brain size. However, Falk says, the hobbit's skull is a bit of a mishmash of characteristics in terms of who it resembles. "Its brain sorts with africanus, yet its outside skull features look like Homo erectus," she says...
...Revolutionary Council of Oct. 11 (the day of the riots that forced the Harlan County to turn back). On Thursday they occupied the National Assembly building and briefly took some of the lawmakers hostage. Foreigners were frightened into leaving the country. First 240 U.N.-Organization of American States human-rights monitors scattered around the countryside were pulled back into Port-au-Prince. From there the U.N., apparently fearing they might be targeted for violence or taken hostage, ordered them flown out in two batches to the Dominican Republic. Their departure is having ''a terrible demoralizing effect on the people...
...book that documents his time trafficking North Korean refugees through a 6,000-mile modern-day underground railroad—Kim trained part-time with Tae Kwon Do instructors in order to get a visa to live in China. Meanwhile, he devoted himself to the human rights efforts that would become the subject of his book. “You can be imprisoned in China for simply feeding a North Korean refugee,” Kim said to an audience in Pound Hall at the Law School last night, highlighting what he called “one of the worst...
...home to more than 1,000 dogs, may hold the answer. The dogs will be used in behavior studies, which, according to Psychology Professor Marc D. Hauser, the leader of the study, will reveal “the extent to which domestication will change dogs into the proximity of human thinking.” The lab formerly housed 40 cottontop tamarin monkeys but were recently replaced by dogs because of the high cost of caring for the monkeys. This switch from monkeys to dogs has struck fear into the hearts of many on-campus dog-lovers, who worry that...
...same memos, the Justice Department did note that forced sleep deprivation, when used in conjunction with other techniques, had been called torture in the past, both by the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (in a lawsuit about human-rights violations in the Philippines) and the U.N., on multiple occasions. Nonetheless, the Justice Department memos concluded that the use of prolonged sleep deprivation "cannot be expected to cause 'severe mental pain or suffering,' " as defined by U.S. criminal...