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Wedged under a heavy corner of Adams House in the piped labyrinth of the basement there are two unmarked wooden doors. Behind them, three or four rooms wind inwards like the chambers of a shell. They are cluttered with odd implements--worn-wood museum pieces with too many handles and big, gripless screws. There are empty racks and cupboards full of metals. There is a smell of deepening rubber. And nested in the inner room, there is the press...
There is more. Several years ago, the British government attempted to pass a bill that would allow those rearing battery hens to remove the chipped wood from their cages. Several animal researchers complained, saying that hens "need" chipped wood. On the face of it, this seems like a highly anthropomorphic claim. After all, how would one know what chickens need or want? Marian Dawkins, an internationally recognized researcher in animal behavior, designed an extremely clever experiment to address this claim...
...constructed a cage with two identical compartments. The compartments were connected by a transparent door. In one compartment, she placed chipped wood on the floor while the other compartment was empty. In one experiment she placed a hen inside the empty compartment. Immediately, the hen pushed the door open and walked into the chipped wood side and began scratching--a species-typical behavior. If the hen started on the chipped wood side, she never went over to the empty side...
...sayings already available in the four canonical Gospels. A few others are so striking as to be perhaps genuine. For instance, in Thomas, Jesus says, "He who is near me is near fire, but he who is far from me is far from the kingdom" and "Split the wood and I am there; lift up the stone and you will find me there." Both have that fresh air of authority that rises from his better-known sayings...
Despite relying on just two players for the bulk of its offense production, neither Meyers nor Wood has cracked the top 75 in ECAC scoring...