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While animals may possess advanced cognitive abilities like episodic memory, these capabilities only exist to solve a particular problem...
...interviews happen throughout the day and all the applicants are there sitting around and waiting so you get to know people. And then that day they come in and tell you who gets it.” According to the scholarship’s official website, applicants must possess a combination of leadership skills, sound character, as well as academic and athletic success as expressed in the will of the British colonial pioneer and statesman Cecil J. Rhodes.But according to Blattler, applicants don’t necessarily have to be involved in organized sports.“I think...
Venezuela, which possess the hemisphere's largest oil reserves, may actually weigh more heavily today on Raul's mind than the U.S. In recent years Venezuela's left-wing, radically anti-U.S. President, Hugo Chavez, a fervent Fidel admirer, has helped prop up Cuba's economy with almost 100,000 daily barrels of cut-rate crude. Chavez, however, is deeply suspicious of, if not antagonistic to, Raul's economic reform intentions. "Raul has to play ball with the Venezuelans," says Latell. "He has no one else to turn to right...
...LANDSLIDE, NO, the Sunday Times reminded readers that voting for Alliance candidates in marginal districts could keep a Conservative triumph within bounds. Said the paper: "We should not need reminding what absolute power, even if acquired through the ballot box, can do to those who come to possess it." Few voters seemed to listen last week...
...would be wonderful if we knew more about teachers such as these and how to multiply their number. How do they come by their craft? What qualities and capacities do they possess? Can these abilities be measured? Can they be taught? Perhaps above all: How should excellent teaching be rewarded so that the best teachers-the most competent, caring and compelling-remain in a profession known for low pay, low status and soul-crushing bureaucracy...