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...chimpanzees today. It probably still spent some time in trees. It probably lived in large social groups that would include both sexes. And rather than competing with one another for mates, the males may well have banded together to defend the troop against predators, forage for food and even hunt for game...
Consequently, my summer job search this year became a hunt for an internship that involved science but would keep me as far away from the lab as possible. Before leaving school, I had planned to spend the summer in Washington, D.C., interning at a swanky new public policy institute where I would be studying the problem of nuclear proliferation from Russia to rogue nations. The job was a dream come true: it sounded fresh, stimulating and totally free from lab work. However, when that job fell through at the last minute, I found myself facing a Harvard student?...
...trouble started with the software that came free with my external CD-R drive (a Hewlett-Packard 8200, one of the most popular). It refused to recognize most of the tunes on my hard drive, which meant I had to hunt for another program that would convert those songs into a more amenable file format. Even then, the ungrateful software served up a CD with pops and clicks after every track...
...workday sometimes finds John Forgach draped in mosquito netting, paddling the backwaters of the Amazon in a dugout canoe. He's on the hunt--for a new investment. Forgach, 52, spent decades making money the old-fashioned way, as an investment banker in places like Geneva and New York City. Now he is back in his native Brazil to show that preserving the environment and indigenous cultures can be profitable. As CEO of a Sao Paulo-based private company called A2R Environmental Funds, Forgach raises money from institutions like the Swiss government and the World Bank Group and invests mainly...
...public isn't buying it. More than half the country is convinced the tax investigation is a political witch-hunt, according to a poll by broadcaster MBC and Gallup Korea. It was certainly a big operation: more than 400 full-time tax inspectors worked over five months. The fines are also among the heftiest ever imposed. According to Yang Seung Ham, a professor of political science at Yonsei University in Seoul: "This was definitely a political decision. The government decided it couldn't postpone doing something about the media...