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...groups of monkeys placed together do not resemble family groupings that would be found in the wild, the animals suffer from psychological deprivation, says McArdle, suggesting that the monkeys should be given toys or other "behavioral aids" in their cages to compensate for their lack of kin. A few branches were seen in the larger cages. yesterday, but most cages contained only the monkeys and their food...
...Springsteen had buffed up a brand-new car with a sandpaper chamois. Using only simple instrumentation, with an occasional synthesizer riff or guitar blitz, Springsteen has created a modern surrogate for the resonant mystery on old blues and early rock records. This makes Tunnel of Love close kin to his 1982 solo effort, Nebraska, which was meant to sound homemade. Tunnel of Love takes that approach even further, into the mythic heart of American music and some slat-roof recording studio -- maybe on a prairie, maybe near a delta -- where a singer sits down, lays down a few sides, then...
...slate. Chun's selections, they complained, are still too attached to the Establishment to preside fairly over a referendum on direct election of the President and the subsequent national elections expected later this year. Given those feelings, it is just as well that neither of the opposition Kims is kin to Prime Minister...
Most South African whites are less enthusiastic but are nonetheless intrigued by the proposal. Eli Louw (no kin), the Minister of Transport, has called the book "worthwhile reading for those dealing with the future of our country." Hendrik Verwoerd, son of the late Prime Minister who institutionalized the apartheid system and himself a leading right-winger, said that while he did not accept the canton system as proposed, the book "provides an important contribution in breaking away from the dangerous unitary state philosophy into a direction which will open eyes to other possibilities...
...Department of Justice and the families are pleased that these settlements were achieved . . . without the need to engage in litigation." With those words, the U.S. Government last week announced that the kin of four crew members who perished aboard the space shuttle Challenger last January had resolved their potential claims against the National Aeronautics and Space Administration...