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...Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, which set out to test whether behaviors observed in the wild were the result of cooperation or coincidentally parallel self-interest. A chimpanzee was placed in a cage, outside of which was a plank with a piece of food. By pulling on two ropes simultaneously, the chimp could pull the food close enough to reach...
...failed. To keep their mission secret, they waited until well after dark Saturday to take off from Liverpool, where Straw had been showing Rice around his constituency. They used Rice?s 757 and, knowing that Straw was suffering from a lingering bronchial infection, she insisted he sleep on the pull-out bed in her cabin. To his embarrassment, Straw learned only the next morning that Rice had slept on the floor by the galley...
Acting Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari doesn?t fit the bill, as far as she and Straw are concerned, because he has been unable to pull together a coalition government so far, and they don?t think his odds are improving. Though they insisted in public they weren?t meddling in internal Iraqi politics, they are known to have told Jaafari bluntly in private that the numbers were against...
...black bra under the thin yellow kebaya, a close-fitting blouse, leaves little to the imagination. Even more suggestive are the flittering eyes and gyrating hips of the dancer, who chases young men to pull them up on stage. One accepts the offer and makes a grab for her large posterior as she beckons with welcoming eyes. Another makes a gesture at her breasts and then stuffs cash into her hands...
...DeLay: No. I plan to do a lot of speaking out, a lot of organizing. Right now, it's my opinion that the conservative movement is leaderless and we need a strong leader to pull the movement together, and I want to go out there and try to do that...