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Chimps Might Have a Sense of Fair Play

Michael Balter wired.com
If you give a mouse a cookie, will it give you something back? Researchers have long wondered whether animals play fair. A new study in chimps suggests that they do, although some skeptics are not convinced.

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Brazil to Give Culture Stipend to Workers

Agence France Presse ArtDaily.org (The First Art Newspaper on the Web)
Brazil to give $25 monthly culture stipend to workers to go to movies, read books or visit museums

A Loss for Netanyahu

Uri Avnery The Progressive
Israel has not gone crazy.It has not moved to the right. The fascists have not taken over the Knesset. Binyamin Netanyahu has not been strengthened. Far from it.Israel has moved to the center.