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...latest research, however, shows that in one species of great ape, the bonobo, males engage in none of this barbarism. Bonobo society is one in which behavioral limits are set, the peace is generally kept, and transgressors are quickly punished. The reason for such order is simple: among bonobos it is the females that enforce the laws. The strategies used in the bonobo world might work in our own, according to Demonic Males (Houghton Mifflin; $24.95), a new book by anthropologist Richard Wrangham and science writer Dale Peterson...
...side effects can be. He was riding a bus two weeks after starting the cocktail therapy when his legs began to twitch violently. "I felt like I was plugged into an electrical socket," Pinkett recalls. "It was like someone had two knobs--one heat, one vibration--and they just kept turning up the volume." After a few minutes, he regained control of his legs. Fortunately, the spasms haven't returned, and Pinkett, whose treatment is paid for by Medicaid, has regained both his energy and his appetite...
Lawsuits happen even in the best-kept homes. Hyperhomemaker Martha Stewart has been taken to court by a gardener, Renaldo Abreu, for overtime pay. He maintains that Stewart never paid him for nonhorticultural tasks, such as cleaning up after the cat. Stewart's lawyers contend that agricultural workers aren't entitled to overtime and his $56,000 salary was fair...
...confidential testing, the results of the antibody test are not included with the client's medical record, but generally kept in a file linked to patients' medical records...
Through it all, Pokhrel kept her faith in herself and her will to live, and made devoted friends in prison while her friends outside worked to set her free. She became an Amnesty International Prisoner of Conscience and was eventually released by the order of the king of Nepal. However, fearing future and possibly fatal persecution, she quietly fled to the U.S., where she attended Harvard's Kennedy School of Government as a Mason Fellow, and received an M.P.A. Later she received a Doctorate of Education from the Graduate School of Education...