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...These kinds of animals collaborate all the time," says the University of Pennsylvania's Sue McDonnell, also an animal behaviorist and vet. "The larger herd is broken down into smaller harems, with a domanant male and several females and their babies. If a youngster is threatened, both the harem males and bachelor males-which usually fight with one another-will get together to try to rescue it." You don't even have to travel to Africa to see such herbivorous first-responders at work. McDonnell specializes in studying wild horses and has occasionally seen the rough-sometimes lethal-treatment feral...
...praying goes on in schools across the U.S. The problem is not prayer but attempts by some Christians to control everyone else. That leads to theocracy, something the settlers of New England tried and found wanting but that Falwell seems to have thought was O.K. Karl E. Moyer, Lancaster, Pennsylvania...
Elizabeth Mackenzie, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, PHILADELPHIA...
...Keohane taught at Swarthmore College, Stanford University, and the University of Pennsylvania before serving as president of Wellesley for twelve years. In 1993 she moved on to Duke, where she served as the university’s first female president and presided over one of the largest capital campaigns in the history of higher education...
...list dwindled, the search committee flirted with higher education’s top brass: John W. Etchemendy, provost of Stanford; Amy Gutmann ’71, the former Princeton provost who had taken the reins at the University of Pennsylvania; Alison F. Richard, a former Yale provost who now led one of England’s crown jewels, the University of Cambridge; and Shirley M. Tilghman, a molecular biologist who had led Princeton as president for a half-decade. (The committee seemed prepared to violate the unwritten rule against poaching leaders from fellow Ivies—if the right candidate...