Word: inheritance
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...with monkeys reveal that their fear of snakes (and probably ours) must still be acquired by watching another individual react with fear to a snake. It turns out that it is easy to teach monkeys to fear snakes but very difficult to teach them to fear flowers. What we inherit is not a fear of snakes but a predisposition to learn a fear of snakes--a nature for a certain kind of nurture...
MILLER: In a will, you get to name whom you want to inherit your estate. If you don't do that, your partner is not entitled to receive any of your estate...
...know what I'd do for work." (Or food: "City people eat too many vegetables. There's not enough fat in their diet.") His teenage son left school after fourth grade to help with their animals, and Jampur wants him to remain a herder: "Those who inherit animals will stay herdsmen. Those who don't have no choice but the city...
...whole. "He was a remarkable man and it will be hard to replace him. I just wish he had not seen his empire plunge into disaster," said one worker clocking off at Fiat's Mirafiori plant in Turin. The heirs of Fiat (the family controls 34% of the stock) inherit a desperate company. Fiat Auto lost j1.35 billion last year, and the parent company was forced to string together a huge j3 billion loan just to keep operating. At least j3 billion in additional capital will be needed, according to analysts. Fiat recently announced a plan to cut at least...
...hope will happen at this conference. We will be talking about everything from human clones and designer babies to biowarfare and genetically modified corn. Will millions of other life forms go extinct before we have a chance to count them, as E.O. Wilson fears? Will artificially intelligent robots inherit the earth, as Ray Kurzweil predicts? And if genetics is a gold mine, as Wall Street promised, where is all the gold...