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Humans! They do like their words. Studies--by scientists who stuck recording devices on them and then counted--suggest that they speak some 16,000 words a day. Vervet monkeys, prairie dogs and European starlings have rudimentary language systems, but for serious verbiage, you have to hand it to Homo sapiens...
...study - which included 7,688 patients in eight hospitals around the world - saw death rates drop from 1.5% before the checklist was instituted to 0.8% afterward. Serious complications fell from 11% to 7%. Study sites included Seattle, London, Toronto, New Delhi, and Ifakara, Tanzania. (See TIME's A-Z Health Guide...
...Though he insists that the shows will be serious replicas of the battles (without the ugly endings of course), the archeology official says that they will also help make the city's monuments live. "Less sacredness and more showmanship," says Broccoli, who has long hosted scientific and historical shows on radio and television. "We need to make our monuments and museums come alive. They must speak to the public...
...Yale Law School, threatening to kill someone through an online forum "can land you in jail for assault, even if you never touch the person." But she added that making empty threats over the Internet rarely results in prosecution. "To trigger criminal prosecution, the threat has to be a serious one," Shaver says...
...fact, because online forum participants rarely know one another and often live on different continents, threats are rarely serious. Partly for that reason, King maintains that online exchanges - even ugly ones - facilitate communication and understanding. "The Internet removes the threat of physical harm and thus offers an unprecedented opportunity for the development of new ideas for conflict mediation," she says...