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Psychologist Daniel Povinelli at the University of Southwestern Louisiana has conducted a number of experiments that adapt Premack's test for primates. In one version, chimpanzees had to choose which of two humans would be better at helping them find some hidden food. While the animals themselves could not see where the food was being hidden, they could observe that only one of the two humans had a full view of the process. When asked to choose a helper, the chimps overwhelmingly chose the human who knew where the food was hidden...
...report in Nature suggests that such thinking is a myth. British scientists studied the pattern of soil erosion in the Patzcuaro basin, an area of southwestern Mexico that was a center of pre-Hispanic civilization. Sediment samples from the lake revealed that erosion rates were at least as high before as after the Spaniards' arrival. In fact, erosion appears to have fallen off after the conquest. The conclusion: a return to traditional farming methods is no guarantee of a return to Eden...
...Southwestern Bell-Hauser transaction left the cable-TV industry abuzz with apprehension about buyouts and drive-outs by bigger rivals. Many analysts think this deal could touch off a new round of investments in cable franchises by phone companies. Though nervous, cable firms face no immediate danger; federal law still prohibits phone companies from owning cable systems in their home market. The Southwestern deal, however, could set the stage for a Baby Bell in one region to raid a sibling's home market. If so, it would be an unprecedented family feud...
Last month, to improve methods for predicting eruptions and thus save lives, 90 scientists from around the world gathered for a U.N.-sponsored conference in the southwestern Colombian city of Pasto. New techniques for detecting pre- eruption changes in the composition of vented gases had shown theoretical promise, and the scientists hoped to test them on Galeras, an active volcano several miles to the west that had not erupted since July 1992. Once again though, the insights of science were employed too late to be effective...
Situated among the rolling hills of southwestern Ohio, Montgomery County is an uncanny microcosm of the rest of the U.S., right down to the renewed obsession with trolls. Last September TIME profiled the region when it was targeted by both the Clinton and Bush campaigns as a critical swing county in a critical state. Among the 96,000 registered Democrats, 66,000 Republicans and 173,000 independents, concern over the economy won out over the county's latent conservatism. Clinton took 41% of the vote, vs. Bush's 40% and Perot...