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ARRESTED. NIM SOPHEA, 22, nephew of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, on murder charges in the shooting deaths of two people after a car race ended in a crash that killed a third person; in Phnom Penh. Police said Nim Sophea, the son of Hun Sen's sister, took part in the race. He allegedly fired an automatic rifle at onlookers who gathered at the crash site, killing two and injuring two. Authorities suspect Nim Sophea was drunk...
...Warshall, math whiz, played the part, teaching everyone a math major numbers game called Nim and then demolishing FM associate ed Antoinette C. Nwandu one-on-one in a Nim match. “You lost as soon as you made the first move, actually,” he shouted to general but slightly uneasy laughter...
BORN. To Sun Myung Moon, 62, self-anointed messiah and founder of the Unification Church, which claims 3 million members around the world, and his wife, Korean-born Hak Ja Han, 40: a daughter, their 13th child; in Tarrytown, NY. Name: Jeung Jin Nim (March of Heart). Weight: 7 lbs. 8 oz. Moon, also born in Korea, was convicted in May of conspiracy to evade paying personal income tax and is awaiting sentencing...
...weasel talk" and "innuendo," considered suing him. Patterson accused Terrace of "rather muddleheaded methodology." But some of the other researchers are taking a long, hard look at their own work. Premack, now at the University of Pennsylvania, thinks that Terrace's tactic of trying to treat Nim like a human baby was "silly and ill-advised," but he agrees that animals are incapable of spontaneous conversation. The Rumbaughs maintain that their more recent experiments preclude the possibility of trainers giving cues, consciously or sub consciously, to the subjects, but they have their own reservations about the linguistic ability...
...whose honor Nim was named, he has no doubts. Says Noam Chomsky: "It's about as likely that an ape will prove to have a language ability as that there is an island somewhere with a species of flightless birds waiting for hu man beings to teach them...