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Psychologist Daniel Povinelli at the University of Southwestern Louisiana has conducted a number of experiments that adapt Premack's test for primates. In one version, chimpanzees had to choose which of two humans would be better at helping them find some hidden food. While the animals themselves could not see where the food was being hidden, they could observe that only one of the two humans had a full view of the process. When asked to choose a helper, the chimps overwhelmingly chose the human who knew where the food was hidden...
During the Reagan-Bush years, the U.S. Supreme Court tried to seize most opportunities to chip away at abortion rights. Not so lately. Last Monday the Justices refused to hear Louisiana's plea to revive its defiant 1991 law, struck down by lower courts, which would have banned most abortions and sent noncomplying doctors to prison. The action, the second such within four months, suggests that despite bitter disagreement, for now the high bench is sticking by last term's compromise words: states may restrict abortion, but not ban it or impose "undue" barriers...
...pinpoint the source of the bacteria, the victim's DNA will be sequenced at Louisiana State University, and researchers will attempt to correlate the locations of victims...
ESPN's "Tournament Week" coverage has seen colleges like Wright State, North-east Louisiana, and Santa Clara gain two hours of national media exposure from obscure gyms around the country...
...magazine are drawn from a constellation of groups, a constellation as diverse and as dedicated to true multiculturalism as any magazine staff on campus (particularly, though by no means restricted to, the conservative ones), and they write about issues ranging from coming out as a Black lesbian in Louisiana to male homoerotics in Tokugawa Japan to racism within the bi/gay/lesbian community and its impact on out relationships with other minority groups...