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...seen hints of behavioral rules in songbirds. A given species tends to have similar songs but with local "dialects" that vary from one territory to another. If a bird sings with a nonlocal accent, he says, "everybody knows: 'Oh, my God, there's an invader.' Then they get upset and kick it out." The question, Blumstein says, is whether that's a sign of ethics or just instinct...
When you said recently that the U.S. was responsible in some way for the 9/11 attacks, you upset a lot of people...
...history of the American Football League (AFL); of complications from diabetes; in Covington, La. He took the Kansas City Chiefs to the first Super Bowl, where the upstart AFL champs were trounced by the mighty Green Bay Packers. Three years later, he led the Chiefs to an upset victory over the Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl IV, helping to cement the legitimacy of the fledgling...
...truth claims, you're bound to be offended at times, or to cause offense." Elizabeth Kendal, a Melbourne-based religious liberty monitor for the World Evangelical Alliance, believes laws like Victoria's will undermine all but the most anemic faiths, the kind that "never offend anyone or upset anyone, and never challenge another's claim to truth...
Although Kalb, 64, played no part in the apparent disinformation campaign, he was uncomfortable as soon as he saw reports that the Government had planted false stories in August about Gaddafi's new plans for terrorist action and U.S. preparations to retaliate. He grew even more upset after Shultz defended the Administration by quoting Winston Churchill's World War II remark about using a "bodyguard of lies" to protect the truth from the Nazis. After a few days of soul searching, Kalb met with Shultz, then resigned the next...