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...autonomy. But uprisings quickly proliferated in the country's vast frontier, only worsening after the military regime wrested control of the country in 1962 and began limiting ethnic freedoms. Beginning in 1989, cease-fires were signed with 17 rebel militias, and certain ethnicities were granted a measure of self-rule. The junta claimed victory for having united one of the world's most diverse countries - and promptly began mining the natural resources that abounded in tribal regions...
...Gabon Violence Follows Vote Ali Ben Bongo was set to fill the shoes of his late father Omar Bongo as Gabon's next President after winning the sub-Saharan nation's presidential elections Sept. 3. But demonstrators demanding change after 41 years of Omar Bongo's rule responded with violence, torching shops, a police station and the French consulate. Ali Ben Bongo's challengers allege stuffing of ballot boxes and "incomprehensible swelling of voter lists" and call for a recount, although they have so far offered no evidence of tampering...
...first rule for scientists studying dogs is, Don't trust your hunches. Just because a dog looks as if it can count or understand words doesn't mean it can. "We say to owners, Look, you may have intuitions about your dog that are valuable," says Hauser. "But they might be wrong." (See TIME's video "The New Frugality: Doggie Day Care...
...Russians began by breeding a group of foxes according to one simple rule: they would walk up to a cage and put a hand on the bars. Foxes that slunk back in fear and snapped their teeth didn't get to breed. Ones that came up to the scientists did. Meanwhile, the scientists also raised a separate group of foxes under identical conditions, except for one difference: they didn't have to pass a test to mate...
...because even in a sluggish economy, the new stadium is close to selling out. By mid-September, the Cowboys were reporting that 95% of their club and reserve seats have been sold to season-ticket holders. That's all the more impressive when you remember that the Cowboys, who ruled the NFL in the early '90s, barely rule Texas these days. Between 1972 and 1996 they won five Super Bowls, three of them in the years after Jones bought the team in 1989 and started fiddling energetically with the coaching staff and the roster. But 1996 was the last time...