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...Christian lived in the store, aptly named Sophisticat, for five months. He played well with children, was litter-trained, and only ruined the store's furniture by accident. But even the most domesticated lion is still too wild for London, so Bourke and Rendall embarked on the long, arduous task of rehabilitating their oversized housecat into the wild. With the help of lion expert George Adamson, they flew Christian to Kenya and helped him establish his own lion pride. A year later, Bourke and Rendall returned to Kenya to visit their lion. A video of their encounter and what happened...
...opposite walls of the testing room, requiring the participants to wear house T shirts, and dividing the room with a bright line of blue tape. Just as the work sessions were about to begin, one member of each team was taken from the room and asked to perform a task that had nothing to do with the actual study. Those students were brought back in five minutes later and instructed to rejoin a group; some were placed on their original team, others on the rival team. In both cases, the rest of the group had already begun working...
...Council’s structure during their general meeting yesterday. In response to the Dowling Report, which was released March 2, UC members debated alternatives to its committee structure, the size of the Council, and the timing of elections. The Dowling Report, a review charged with the task of considering student governance on campus, raised several issues that would require the UC to amend its constitution in order for the changes to be implemented. The report recommended that the UC’s Finance Committee have a rotating membership, but that idea received some resistance from Council members...
...that “America’s future depends on its teachers.” Reforming teacher layoff procedures will help ensure that, even in a down economy in which hard choices must be made, good teachers stay in the classroom, where they can continue with the invaluable task of educating our youngest citizens...
...government of New South Wales has established a task force of 75 officers to track the bike gangs. It is also pondering the introduction of new laws to declare illegal membership in or association with particular clubs. "These groups are behaving like wild animals - uncivilized and with no regard for our community. If they behave like this, then we have no choice but to hunt them down and deal with them," an angry New South Wales police commissioner, Andrew Scipione, told reporters. Scipione has defended the police record in dealing with gangs. He says that in the past six months...