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...terribly surprising that apes, humanity's closest relatives, might possess some measure of smarts. But is it possible that more distantly related species might also have some capacity for symbolic communication? Herman offers a partial answer through his work with dolphins, animals whose ancestors diverged from other mammals' more than 45 million years...
Epps has a more encouraging view of the administration's work in race relations this year. "I think that the work so far has given us a partial understanding of the dynamics of race at Harvard," he says...
...scientists were bombarded with boulders the size of TV sets. "They split open when they hit the ground," said McFarlane. "Inside they were glowing red." One of the flying boulders crushed to death Colombian geochemist Jose Arles Zapata. Williams was felled as well, but managed to drag himself to partial shelter behind a huge rock...
...escaping oil quickly burned off or evaporated, calming fears of environmental damage to fishing waters and the coasts of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. By week's end emergency workers had secured the drifting 260,000-ton ship to a tug and had brought the blaze under partial control. It was the third major tanker accident in as many weeks...
...bound to disappoint some followers and make some enemies. Yet Clinton will have to move fast to begin enacting his policies before the momentum of his election begins to fade. And the choices he faces in doing so are far more complex than anything foreshadowed by campaign oratory. A partial rundown...