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...over. The idea of animal emotion is now accepted as part of mainstream biology. And thanks to Bekoff and other researchers, ethologists are also starting to accept the once radical idea that some animals--primarily the social ones such as dogs, chimps, hyenas, monkeys, dolphins, birds and even rats--possess not just raw emotions but also subtler and more sophisticated mental states, including envy, empathy, altruism and a sense of fairness. "They have the ingredients we use for morality," says Frans de Waal, a professor of primate behavior at Emory University in Atlanta, referring to the monkeys and chimps...
...divorced), the earth suddenly faces the somewhat more daunting ordeal of death-dealing tripod machines rising from the ground and massacring innocent bystanders. Apparently, the tripods were buried by malevolent aliens centuries earlier, and have now been activated by the evil extraterrestials. Cruise’s character appears to possess no special powers that equip him to survive an alien attack, other than being able to unload shipyard cargo very fast and having the skills of an excellent auto mechanic. (There’s a V-8 engine sitting near his kitchen table.) I’m guessing his character...
Barreira added that the two students on the committee were particularly keen on Travia because they thought he seemed to possess a good understanding of the “mindset and experience of students...
General WilliamT. Sherman, no soft touch, provides one epitaph: "Of all the men I ever met, he seemed to possess more of the elements of greatness, combined with goodness, than any other...
...notion that blacks were the cause of the war. A horse thief did not apologize for his theft by blaming the horse. "No, Mr. President, it is not the innocent horse that makes the horse thief ... but the cruel and brutal cupidity of those who wish to possess horses, money and Negroes by means of theft, robbery and rebellion." He called Lincoln "a genuine representative of American prejudice" who was more concerned about the border states than about any "principle of justice and humanity...