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...even when the imitator was a member of another species (Homo sapiens). The authors of the paper, Annika Paukner of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Animal Center and her colleague Pier Ferrari as well as two Italian researchers, structured the study this way: two experimenters, each holding a small plastic ball, faced each monkey in its cage (10 monkeys in all participated). The monkey was given an identical ball. One of the experimenters imitated whatever the monkey did with the ball - poking it, mouthing it, pounding it. The other experimenter didn't imitate the animal. (See pictures of monkeys...
...small programs have drawn little attention. But their impact has been dramatic. Zinc pills appear to halt diarrhea in its tracks. "Before, we were terrified when children's stomachs began running, because we knew some of them would die," says Sata Djialla in the Malian village of Morola. "Now our children are not dying of diarrhea...
...small press contingent on the ground felt the full force of executive power when Air Force One revved up its engines, taxied up the tarmac a couple of plane lengths, then turned onto the runway, jet-blasting wind, dust and grit onto the journalists and camera operators. Trailed by two black suburbans, the blue-and-white jet moved east, then turned west, into the prevailing winds, throttled to full power and lifted the Obama's into the mountain sky and off to another working-vacation destination, the next town hall meeting in Grand Junction, Colorado...
Bashardost rejects the numbers, and may be alone in thinking he can still win. His campaign is unrelenting. As the sun crept over the mountains to the east of the city, he and a small entourage headed for the airport to catch a free flight on an Afghan Army plane to Herat, in western Afghanistan, for another day on the road...
...diving suit. In France the incident falls into a wider political debate over how to reconcile the country's Muslim immigrants to French secular values. And while the number of Muslim women in France - indeed, throughout the world - who insist on a severe covering like the burqa is small, the challenge of staying slim and Islamically proper is not. (Will France ban the burqa...