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...human visitors as anything else. The array of dysfunctional behaviors on display at even the best zoos - from swaying giraffes to pacing big cats to the compulsive back-and-forth swimming of Gus, the famously neurotic polar bear in New York's Central Park Zoo - illustrate the psychologists' point. Trying to improve conditions is hard enough with small to midsize animals like cheetahs and lions; with a leviathan like a killer whale, whose enclosure can only get so big, it's nearly impossible. (See a 2006 story about a killer-whale attack in San Diego...
...school where we’re constantly divided between our study-mode selves and our rage-hard-on-a-Friday-night selves, we can come to a point where we look at certain aspects of our personalities or certain behaviors as somehow disconnected from who we are. We trade in our textbooks for tequila and let the good times roll...
Although one unnamed senior responded with a quizzical “Who?”, this year’s seniors seem to appreciate the choice, or at least do not oppose it, and many point to the unique advantages that she has as the latest Class Day Speaker...
...knew he needed to get there early to claim it. That's where Kim would strike the final pose in her short program, set to a medley of James Bond movie soundtracks. Playing the ultimate Bond girl, Kim would bring her hands together into a makeshift gun and point it - Han hoped - straight into his lens. (See pictures of the best Bond girls...
...awoke to an unusual sight: a military tank driving down their main street. The tank baffled the Danes at first, but then they laughed and cheered and generally acted as if a circus had come to town. A Turkish artist, Koken Ergun, had organized the stunt to make a point: most Westerners have no idea of what it means to wake up to a coup, with tanks rumbling through the streets, TV stations seized and a sense of fear in the air. Yet it is an all too familiar memory in Turkey, which has experienced four coups in the last...