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...when it came to "social learning" tasks - such as understanding how to solve a problem by watching someone else do it, figuring out someone else's state of mind from their actions, or using nonverbal communication to explain or understand how to find something - the kids made monkeys of the apes. In one test, for example, researchers showed both groups how to open up a plastic tube to get at a treat. The children learned by watching, and opened it as the adults did. The apes tended to just chew the tube open. In another, researchers would hide the treat...
...problem with hitching your identity to a sport is that it can drain the fun from playing it. And at the pointy end of recent World Cups, the All Blacks have looked clammy - which is how their supporters are feeling now. "My friends and I are rugby tragics, but no one's mentioning the Cup," says Auckland publishing executive Paul Gardiner. "Our mentality is such that when we watch these games we'll be too scared of losing to enjoy them...
Picaresque movies often feel longer than they are. For them to work, they need an interior spring with more thrust than Darjeeling's attempt at reconstituted brotherhood. The problem is in Anderson's approach, which is so supercool, it's chilly. In his elaborate visual construct, virtually every shot is followed by the camera's point of view shifting 90º or 180º--geometrically groovy but quickly predictable. Same goes for his stories, which rely on gifted people behaving goofily. Anderson has the attitude for comedy but not the aptitude. His films are airless. Humor under glass...
...first time, it stressed, that Pyongyang had agreed to a specific timetable on full denuclearization. The North Koreans in turn announced how happy they were that the U.S. had agreed to take Pyongyang off its list of state sponsors of terrorism, something Kim has long sought. The only problem is that the U.S. later flatly denied that Pyongyang was off the list, saying the February agreement only held that out as a prospect if and when the North verifiably no longer had nukes...
...items--9/11 reforms and an increase in the minimum wage--had become law, while Bush had vetoed funding for stem-cell research. Proposals to reduce subsidies for oil companies and expand Pell grants remain tied up in conference committees; a bill to fix Medicare's prescription-drug problem has stalled in the Senate. Still, the GOP passed only two of the 11 Contract with America items in its first year back in charge...