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...professor of biological anthropology, introduced Wobber to research that found that dogs respond better to human signals than chimpanzees do. For instance, if chimpanzees see a human pointing to one of two bowls and are asked to select which bowl is more likely to have food, chimpanzees pick the wrong bowl as often as the correct one, Wrangham said. However, dogs who were involved in the same experiment were more accurate, he added. Wobber became interested in what factor was responsible for differences in each species’ cognitive ability and why some species are better at reading human signals...
...midnight. But we were sorry to see that the Student Council, which usually spends much of its time agreeing with the administration, thought that extension of Lamont hours was unnecessary—just one week before Librarian Buck announced the change. It seems the Council jumped on the wrong wave of history this time and got caught in the backwash. Under the leadership of their new Master and their Senior Tutor, the men at Kirkland House were experimenting. Early in the fall they began a tutorial program for science majors, designed to acquaint budding scientists with the philosophy of their...
...dangerous move.Every coach in the country would have said that it was the wrong thing to do in that situation. It was too risky, too exposing. With everything on the line, a simple error would mean that it was all over.But it worked.As Benjamin Ungar lunged forward, he felt the point of his weapon on Denis Tolkachev’s foot. Even before the light came on to indicate the touch, the Harvard epee fencer knew. And then he turned around and yelled—yelled as loud as he could for as long as he could.He had done...
...present conflict has been fueled by the wrong information given to the US Government by these warlords who have denied their basic human needs for security and development and kept the Somali people hostages and terrorized them for the last 16 years. Their expertise is to terrorize people and they were able to use it and terrorize the American government by misinforming them about the presence of terrorists in Somalia. These warlords are allegedly supported by the American government, [which] ignores the long criminal history of these warlords and the war crimes they committed against their own people. The alleged...
...letter, Sheikh Sherif argues that the warlords have duped the U.S. government for its own gain. "The present conflict has been fueled by the wrong information given to the U.S. Government by these warlords," he writes. "Their expertise is to terrorize people and they were able to use it and terrorize the American government by misinforming them about the presence of terrorists in Somalia...