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...less, using a stick to get something that's out of reach. And indeed, the kids were of an age - 2 1/2 years old - where it's widely known that they do perform about as well as chimps in such tests. So for example, the scientists would hide a treat of some kind - a toy, or some food - behind a box, while the test subjects looked on. The kids, chimps and orangs would have to be sophisticated enough to know that the object disappearing from view didn't mean it stopped existing, and had to be able to figure...
...Crocker, a much admired diplomat who has spent his entire career in the region. If Petraeus has seen some victories, Crocker has known nothing but defeat in his dealings with the failed government of Nouri al-Maliki-dealings that mostly involve trying to get the Shi'ites to treat the Sunnis fairly and stop fighting among themselves. As a result, Crocker may have a better handle on the most important questions facing the U.S. effort in Iraq: Can the success with the Sunni tribes be extrapolated? Can a similar program work with the Shi'ites? Can Iraq be saved from...
Whether the French call Noriega a POW is more than academic, says Detlev Vagts, who teaches international law at Harvard. "You have to refrain from transferring a POW to a country that you think won't treat him as a POW," Vagts told TIME. "We returned a lot of German POWs to the French at the end of World War II. There are plausible charges that the French did not treat them as they should - kept them a long time and caused them to do dangerous work in mining...
...attributed to the Kiwis crumbling. Former All Black Eric Rush says he saw that loss coming after speaking to a few of the players in the lead-up. "There was a lot of pressure on them, a lot of expectation, and the way they dealt with that was to treat it like just another game," says Rush. "And that's exactly how they played it" - only to be swamped by an opponent high on fervor...
...Suzuki and unexpected wonks like former CIA director James Woosley - deliver bite-size, sometimes haunting bits of wisdom. The best is in the first quarter of the film, when lesser-known environmentalists like Paul Hawker and Janine Bonyus explain why it seems to be instinctual for human beings to treat nature like garbage. (Short answer: we've come to believe that technology has made us separate from and superior to the planet that still sustains every aspect of our lives...