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...just a superficial resemblance. Chimps, especially, not only look like us, they also share with us some human-like behaviors. They make and use tools and teach those skills to their offspring. They prey on other animals and occasionally murder each other. They have complex social hierarchies and some aspects of what anthropologists consider culture. They can't form words, but they can learn to communicate via sign language and symbols and to perform complex cognitive tasks. Scientists figured out decades ago that chimps are our nearest evolutionary cousins, roughly 98% to 99% identical to humans at the genetic level...
CNN’s chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour introduced a new HBO documentary to a packed John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum last night, describing the film as a reflection of the violent polarization of the world today. Amanpour introduced the documentary, “Journalist & the Jihadi: The Murder of Daniel Pearl,” saying that the refusal of both politicians and the general public to believe journalists’ reports on the war in Iraq is a dangerous “denial of reality.” The film, which is directed and produced by Ahmed Jamal...
...star. He might not be a celebrity per se, but John Mark Karr certainly made headlines after his shocking confession to accidentally killing Jon Benet Ramsey ten years ago. Apprehended in Bangkok in August, flown first class to Colorado, and outfitted in new duds, Karr was eventually acquitted of murder charges after DNA tests were negative. Karr is now being held for charges of owning child pornography. On a more somber note, environmentalist Steve Irwin, the “Crocodile Hunter,” died tragically after being stung in the chest by a stingray while filming...
...favorite department store, Fendi, was covered in pelts of every size, shape, and color. Fur collars even decorated the tops of suits in Armani shops (though I doubt that will catch on with the males of America). And no one seemed to object to the requisite murder of small animals! Considering that Italy is a country where people feel comfortable spraying graffiti on priceless Roman artifacts, that’s quite an accomplishment. Yet in Cambridge, where the weather has become rather cold by now, there is a veritable lack of fur on anything. This fact isn?...
...opposition sustained a serious blow last February when its key leader, Altynbek Sarsenbayev - who had been Nazarbayev's Information Minister, secretary of the Security Council, and ambassador to Moscow - and two associates were murdered by a group of officers belonging to the National Security Committee (KNB), heir to the Soviet-era KGB. Late last month, a court found Yerzhan Utembayev, the former Senate chief of staff, guilty of putting out the contract on Sarsenbayev "for reasons of personal enmity," and sentenced him to 20 years. Nine others received sentences ranging from three years to life for complicity in the murder...