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...roots in our evolution. What has never been precisely understood, though, is why we like to be parroted so much. One theory is that mimicry somehow promotes safety in groups of animals by binding them together - that mimicry is a kind of social glue. (Read what fat-bellied monkeys tell us about our own social stress...
Cheney, Dick • contempt of for White House insiders who went on to write tell-all memoirs is apparently being withheld by from self
...from far-off Ekalaka, Mont., introduced himself as a "proud NRA member" who gets his news from the cable channels, and said he had heard a lot of talk from Obama and the Democrats about reforming health care, which he indicated he wasn't quite buying. "You can't tell us how we're going to pay for this. You'll have to raise our taxes, when you said you wouldn't." Obama responded by outlining how he planned to fund the program: by eliminating medical-practice waste and insurance expenses, to cover two-thirds; and the remaining one-third...
...general conference is in October, which will decide the president of the party who, according to the system, is the party's candidate for president. Political work in Sudan, as I see it, is not a comfortable task. It is tiring, exhausting, and with great responsibilities. I used to tell some presidents whose periods had ended that the best thing is to be a "former president;" someone who is respected, appreciated, and without any responsibilities...
...likely to be that simple. Sources in China tell TIME that while Beijing recognizes it overreached by originally alleging the theft of state secrets, this week's climbdown does not mean the government is looking for a face-saving way out of the situation. Far from it, in fact. The case - just as many outsiders had assumed - is rooted in what one Chinese steel-industry official called the "sense of outrage at the highest levels in Beijing" that Rio walked away in June from a $19.5 billion tie-up it had struck late last year with Chinalco, the Chinese state...