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...Grandin is an eminent scholar of animal behavior who also happens to be autistic. These humans have written two books that look very different but are, in their warm-blooded, four-chambered hearts, very similar. In The Well-Dressed Ape (Random House; 351 pages), Holmes attempts to produce a thorough description of Homo sapiens using the kind of language we ordinarily reserve for animals. In Animals Make Us Human (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 342 pages), Grandin does the opposite: she describes animals in terms we usually associate with human beings. Both writers are after the same thing. They want to demolish...
...Everyone attending the festivities will be subject to a "thorough security screening," the Secret Service says, warning that "lines may be long" outside the 13 entrances along the parade route that will open at 7 a.m. on Inauguration Day. Everything that you think might be banned is. The list of items ranges from the "duh" variety - firearms, ammunition, explosives, knives and Mace - to the more mundane: coolers, thermoses, umbrellas, strollers and backpacks...
...working his way up the ladder to take control of some of the most ambitious, unwieldy and risky epics in movie history. For readers with a limited knowledge of the movie industry, its transition from silents to talkies, and the rise of the big studio picture, Sragow's thorough scene-setting could double as a cinematic history lesson - illuminating the many famous lives that Fleming touched (and helped to shape) and the ways in which sets, casts, contracts and careers worked during Hollywood's grand glory days...
...University President Drew G. Faust to examine community and police relations at Harvard announced that its report would likely not be ready for release until March, rather than later this month as originally planned. The delay, which was first reported by The Boston Globe, cited a need to be thorough in listening to students and groups on campus. But several minority student groups said that they have already noticed heightened efforts by University administrators and the Harvard University Police Department to address potential racially sensitive practices on campus.“Honestly, I’m not too concerned...
Your editorial (“Legislating Under the Influence,” editorial, Nov. 20) supports the conclusions of the Amethyst Initiative and calls for lowering the legal minimum drinking age from 21 to 18. The editors have not done a thorough job of examining the large body of available scientific evidence on the protective effects of the 21-age law. Of all alcohol control policies, the 21-year minimum drinking age is the most frequently studied, and the one deemed most effective. According to the Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board “ State Age-21 laws...