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...researchers cite no shortage of examples. Meerkats, whose societies are rich enough to have sustained a wildly popular television series - Meerkat Manor - don't weigh in with a whole lot of gray matter relative to their body size. The same holds true for hyenas and mongooses - albeit without the TV following. Bears, small cats and weasels, on the other hand, pack a lot of brain into their heads yet prefer to go it alone. (See pictures of animals in love...
...Compact and friendly are Christchurch's operative words. Studios and galleries flourish in the Cultural Precinct, www.culturalprecinct.co.nz, a small but artistically rich quarter featuring the Arts Centre, the Christchurch Art Gallery, the Centre of Contemporary Art and other must-see cultural outlets. Chic boutiques are concentrated in the rejuvenated alleyways of the Poplar Lane and High Street heritage districts. In the area south of Lichfield Street (or simply SOL), lively venues like the Base dance club, www.thebase.co.nz, and Fat Eddie's jazz bar, www.fateddies.co.nz, rock their respective houses. Pub server Debbie Cartwright says "all ages hang together comfortably." Bryan Pearson...
...mere $1,350). Despite their collecting more than 3,000 signatures of support in less than two weeks, Martell acknowledges that they got significantly less money than hoped for. Still, during Tuesday's auctioning, Bochenek made 10 successful bids worth nearly $7,560. (Watch TIME's video "Damien Hirst: Rich Artist Gets Richer...
Caste rivalries and a fight over offerings at a cash-rich Sikh temple in Vienna echoed far and wide on Monday as sectarian violence once again erupted in India's Sikh-majority state of Punjab. At least two people have been killed and 14 injured since news reached Punjab yesterday via text messages and mobile phones that a Sikh preacher of a lower-caste sect, 57-year-old Sant Rama Nand, had been shot dead in a clash in a temple in Austria. Thousands of lower-caste Sikhs took to Punjab's streets armed with swords and batons, burning buses...
...latest book of verse, Darwin: A Life in Poems. Even before Padel, the naturalist's great-great-granddaughter, wove together fragments of Charles Darwin's writings to create her acclaimed poetic biography, she cited his ideas as an inspiration. "Darwin loved form; he's always saying he loved the rich, complex forms of what he looked at. And that's so like poetry, and that's what I like about poetry too," she told an interviewer. (See pictures marking the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth...