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...acquiring a growing family of rodents. “I mean, some dorms have mice running all over. One in a cage, one in a hall, what’s the difference?” asks one junior who preferred to remain anonymous, claiming that his House administration would hunt him down if they ever found out about his pets...
...textile business who had been sent to work in Manchester, was just 24 when he wrote The Condition of the Working Class in England--a brilliant book whose subject would provide the factual underpinning to the analysis of capitalism that Engels and his friend Karl Marx later produced. Hunt, a British historian, details the way Marxism would not have been possible without Engels, an unlikely revolutionary who worked for years as a high-living, foxhunting capitalist to support Marx's endeavors--Engels' devotion was such that he even assumed the paternity of an illegitimate child of Marx's. Hunt shows...
...With the onset of the Cold War, fears flared anew. Indeed, the term socialized medicine was coined in the late 1940s by critics of President Harry Truman's national health-care plan. From 1945 to 1960, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)--which was founded in 1938 to hunt down suspected Nazi sympathizers--interrogated more than 3,000 people. And in 1950, Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy launched his infamous witch hunts for communists in the Federal Government. When no evidence backing his charges emerged, the Senate censured...
...that the two species that pass Hare's pointing test also share a profound cross-species bond. Many animals have some level of social intelligence, allowing them to coexist and cooperate with other members of their species. Wolves, for example--the probable ancestors of dogs--live in packs that hunt together and have a complex hierarchy. But dogs have evolved an extraordinarily rich social intelligence as they've adapted to life with us. All the things we love about our dogs--the joy they seem to take in our presence, the many ways they integrate themselves into our lives--spring...
...foxes are a guide, dog evolution may have begun with a similar shift in personality. Ancestors of dogs could cooperate to hunt, but the cooperation had limits. Wolves are fiercely competitive, as each one tries to claw its way to the top of the pack. Hare proposes that aggressive wolves evolved to have an easygoing personality thanks to a new opportunity: trash...