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...have, and it is. But what does the act mean? Is it a one-off, or the start of a gorilla sexual revolution? Breuer is hesitant to draw any conclusions, noting that scientists observe just a sliver of the life of wild gorillas, but he speculates that face-to-face mating (also known as "ventro-ventral copulation," for the Latinists out there) might engender a deeper relationship between the silverback male, George, and Leah, the female. After the mating was finished (roughly 2 mins., about par for the course for your average silverback), Breuer even observed George holding Leah...
...Oslo, and lead author of the PLoS Medicine paper. Working with nearly 50 years of animal, human and bacteriological statistics from the former Soviet Union, his team found that human plague in Kazakhstan occurs only when the local gerbil population reaches a certain threshold in winter. Warmer winters mean more gerbils. That, says Stenseth, suggests plague's "re-emergence might have a climate component...
...certainly don’t mean to impugn Scientology at large, but over the course of this nine-minute video its most high-profile adherent behaves in a way that, never having met one, I imagine a lunatic might behave. The “Unabomber Manifesto” of Ted Kaczynski ‘62 sounds measured and logical compared to some of the things that Maverick is saying: for example, “it’s not how to run from an S.P. [suppressed person, or non-Scientologist]; it’s P.T.S.S.P., how to shatter suppression?...
...Singh says more and more people are also approaching him for caste verification. In the Hindu system, everyone is born into a caste. Traditionally marriages took place only within castes, and there was little social or economic mobility. That is changing as society evolves, and government affirmative action programs mean an increasing number of lower-caste members now have good jobs and nice houses. Some have taken on upper-caste surnames to avoid lingering stigmas. "But when it comes to marriage, parents want to ensure their children are marrying into the right caste and lineage and are not being deceived...
...when you’ve got to [resort] to the basics, the fundamentals—what you do best, and what you did to get us to that start that we had in the beginning.” For Richter, a return to early-season form would mean playing like the best goalie in the country. For Harvard, it would result in something even greater—the right to be recognized as Boston’s greatest team. “It would be a huge momentum-builder,” MacDonald said. “At the start...