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...have, and it is. But what does the act mean? Is it a one-off, or the start of a gorilla sexual revolution? Breuer is hesitant to draw any conclusions, noting that scientists observe just a sliver of the life of wild gorillas, but he speculates that face-to-face mating (also known as "ventro-ventral copulation," for the Latinists out there) might engender a deeper relationship between the silverback male, George, and Leah, the female. After the mating was finished (roughly 2 mins., about par for the course for your average silverback), Breuer even observed George holding Leah...
...wild student section was full of rowdy hecklers, chanting at every chance they could to get into the Harvard players heads. They even taunted Amaker...
Sure, Yahoo! is practically a historic landmark, the last of the pure dotcom plays from the wild 1990s. But brace for impact: Microsoft hasn't even promised to keep the Yahoo! brand alive. ("That's a question we haven't answered yet," purrs Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft's senior vice president of strategic partnerships. Really...
That brought to mind the brief history of search-engine domination. If we trace the roots of our Internet behavior back to the Net's wild-west days in the mid-to-late '90s, most of us were probably launching into cyberspace from a portal page like Yahoo's, or through Excite or Lycos (remember them?). And by the new millennium, search engines, especially Google, had become the place to begin and end our Internet days. Then came Generation Y and the social network. What began as a younger-user phenomenon quickly caught on with 25-to-34-year-olds...
...realization of an impossible dream that the handful of Giants fans in the room had just experienced. Conley and I ran the gamut of celebrations appropriate at a sporting event, engaging in everything from handshakes to chest bumps, and then settled in for the final seconds of the wild ride that had turned 50 or so normally well-mannered and eloquent members of the Harvard community in attendance into a raving pack of grunting and shouting Neanderthals. The crowd assembled in the Kirkland basement was probably pretty representative of any group of Harvard students who watched the Super Bowl last...