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There are other trouble spots. We say, david, it is an uptick. It is kind of inside the margin of error. The president is tied as sort of his lowest in terms of job Approval Ratings as president. I dont think because of a threepoint uptick, which is the margin of error, you will the Democratic Candidates flocking to the president. I dont see a huge shift on the issues. He is still in the 30s, Foreign Affairs not doing very well either. Looks, he will probably be in the 40s all the way up until n...

Shirley was facing her fear of heights in aid of the charity Campaign Against Living Miserably!

Sex and gender have come to represent one of the hottest fronts in the modern culture wars. Now, on to this bloody battlefield, calmly dodging banned books, anti-transgender laws and political doublespeak, strolls the distinguished Dutch-American primatologist Frans de Waal, brandishing nearly half a century’s worth of field notebooks and followed, metaphorically speaking, by an astonishingly diverse collection of primates. Given the world it enters, de Waal’s new book, Different: What Apes ...

What can the behaviour of apes teach us about sex and gender? A great deal, according to a new book by primatologist Frans de Waal – and his findings are already stirring controversy

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Print this article What do the logarithmic calculator, crystal glasses, ballistic algebra, and the Frank Capra movie It Happened One Night have in common? The answer to this apparently obscure quiz is provided in Meredith Small’s delightful and erudite study of one of the best-and-least-known cities in the world: Venice. “Like most tourists,” admits Small, “I had thought of Venice as a pretty place in an unusual setting,” but her research for Inventing the World: Venice and the Tra...