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...researchers showed both groups how to open up a plastic tube to get at a treat. The children learned by watching, and opened it as the adults did. The apes tended to just chew the tube open. In another, researchers would hide the treat while the test subjects were present. Then the subjects would have to find it, with the only clue being that the scientists would look toward the hiding place. Again, the kids beat the apes soundly...
...Pavarotti burst onto the opera scene in the mid 1960s, building a reputation as one of the great performers of the century, noted for his impassioned style as he hit the high C's and gripped his ever-present white dinner napkin. He achieved worldwide fame with live television appearances, both of classical operas and duets with such singers as Stevie Wonder and Celine Dion. He is also one-third of the Three Tenors, alongside Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras...
...motion for a stay, as well as a petition for habeas corpus, with U.S. District Judge William Hoeveler in Miami and the judge, who presided over Noriega's original trial, granted a stay by the late afternoon but ordered both the government and Noriega's legal team to present their arguments and evidence to him on Thursday morning. Hoeveler will review the arguments in his chambers. The habeas petition by Noriega's lawyers raised concerns that France may fail to accord Noriega prisoner of war status in accordance with the Geneva Convention. The motion also calls for the intervention...
...Cross visit him and if he wants to sit in [a French] cell in his Panamanian uniform, I'd let him." The option of wearing his khaki uniform with the stars on the epaulets is but one of the privileges afforded Noriega as a prisoner of war. At present, Noriega resides in a special cell in the Federal Correctional Institute in Miami. His POW status affords him customized living quarters that resemble a condo more than a prison cell, what with its exercise machines, telephone and color TV. If he were treated as a common criminal, says attorney...
...channels have continued to find new angles to present the same stories and the same footage over and over again. Legal experts and social scientists have been brought out to hail Dutt and Khan's sentences - at the end of court cases that dragged on for 14 and 9 years, respectively - as a triumph of justice over influence, and even stardom...