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Given two chimpanzees (A and B), both "other directed," both infinitely fond of food scraps, and occupying neighboring cages in a public zoo. By making a fool of himself (by scratching, jumping, chattering, etc.), Chimp A wins the love and peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches of the selfless little schoolchildren who visit the zoo. Question: How do A's antics affect the behavior...
Right from the start, the pickings were pretty fair. The French went on buying Mali's peanut crop at above-market prices, Britain furnished four DC-3s to get Air Mali into business, West Germany's Krupp advanced $6,000,000 in credits to permit the Mali government to buy 300 trucks, and the U.S. anted up $2,500,000, mostly in cement and gasoline. Entering enthusiastically into the competition, the Common Market nations jointly granted $2,700,000 for irrigation and medical supplies, and Red China signed a barter deal: Chinese machinery and building supplies for Mali...
...Beans & Peanut Butter. Yanked by her mother from progressive Brentwood ("when she discovered we were being taught to count with lima beans"), Brooke bounced back and forth between school and private tutors. After her divorce from Hayward, Margaret Sullavan moved to Connecticut, and Brooke went to a school unused to the Hollywood breed. Within six months after her arrival, Brooke recalls proudly, one teacher had a nervous breakdown. A little later Brooke was expelled from the Girl Scouts. Meanwhile, Mommy married Kenneth Wagg, then a director of Horlick's Malted Milk, and, insists Brooke, "we had nothing but malted...
...Brooke traveled with her family through Europe, met Mike in Paris and eloped with him two weeks later. "We didn't tell our families until September, by which time I was thoroughly pregnant." While Mike finished up at Yale, they lived in New Haven, "living literally on peanut butter and baked beans, while I was mother confessor to all the boys." But after four years of marriage and two children, Brooke and Mike were divorced...
...bought the Daily News from John Knight, he was advised to reach for a mass market with the tabloid Sun-Times and to aim the News at quality readership. Field disagreed. "Newspapers outside of New York," said he firmly, "should speak to the orchestra seats as well as the peanut gallery...