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Juliane Kaminski of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, began exploring the verbal gifts of dogs when she saw a television show about a border collie named Rico--an animal that to all appearances could fetch dozens of different objects in response to their names. Kaminski put Rico to a rigorous test and confirmed that the dog could learn names for more than 200 toys, balls and other items. "I think Rico is a highly talented dog," says Kaminski, "but we've also found new dogs that do what Rico...
...baseball and football fixtures slumped, the games' following through newspapers and radio took off. Stories of gritty players overcoming adversity to triumph on the field were printed "almost ad nausea," says Crepeau. From the economic misery, heroes offered a diversion. When Joe Louis fought back to beat German Max Schmeling for the world heavyweight boxing crown in 1938, he later said, "the whole damned country was depending on me." Australia's greatest Depression heroes were a cricket player and a horse. Populated by local working class heroes, English soccer "provided a sense of national wellbeing at a time when other...
...Atkinson, Sophomore Mike Katzer, and Thompson each netted two goals, while Voith, sophomores Luka Babic and Evan Zepfel, and freshmen Max Eliot added one score a piece. Eliot enjoyed another strong tournament, building on his Northern Division Rookie of the Week honors from last week...
...much awaited sweeping health-reform legislation comes under heavy fire from both the left and the right, Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus is doing his best to keep his game face on. In an interview with TIME.com, he said the reaction he has gotten "feels like it's about right, because this is something that can pass ... It's a sense of inevitability that [the bill] is pretty close to the mark here." But after a stormy closed-door session with his fellow Finance Committee Democrats, Baucus is sounding open to making some changes, even before he bangs...
...friend and the ranking Republican on his committee, is "under intense pressure from his side of the aisle to withdraw from the process" after months of bipartisan talks. Nonetheless, Baucus says, "I still think there'll be some Republican support at the end of the day." Say this for Max Baucus: he's not one to give up easily...