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...question the research of Topál, Hare and others raises is why chimpanzees--who are in most ways much smarter than dogs--lack the ability to read gestures. Hare believes that the chimps' poor performance is one more piece of proof that the talent is rooted not in raw intelligence but in personality. Our ape cousins are simply too distracted by their aggression and competitiveness to fathom gestures easily. Chimps can cooperate to get food that they can't get on their own, but if there's the slightest chance for them to fight over it, they will. For humans...
Both candidates were student representatives last year. According to Androsoff, the two candidates had leadership roles focusing on two major issues facing HKS students—a “funding crunch” for international students who had decreased funding as a result of currency devaluation, and the lack of student input in the decision to eliminate some of the Kennedy School’s social space...
...Harvard study released last week found that an estimated 45,000 deaths each year are associated with a lack of health insurance coverage—a finding that is likely to bolster the case for health insurance reform currently being debated in Congress this fall...
...They’re wrong. Politicians exploit cultural differences, but conservatives’ concern with our culture, specifically the lack of two-parent households, is legitimate...
...been really staggering. You talk to people for a living - did you know what kind of anger was simmering out there? I did, and it's in my book. You can pull out paragraphs on how mad people were about pork-barrel spending, about taxes and about the lack of accountability [in Washington.] You had all these people who were mad, but there wasn't a spark that would cause them to get involved. Health care became that spark...