… if the idea of doggy stylists, and cat psychologists touch a chord with you, then this is a story guaranteed to make you gooey eyed and say “tho’ thweet’. The world’s first government sponsored retirement home for chimps.
This past spring, in a secluded patch of forest in northwest Louisiana’s Caddo Parish, a singularly bizarre bit of evolution unfolded. There, amid the sun-dappled pines and flitting birds, a pair of 40-something chimpanzees named Rita and Teresa — lifetime research subjects who were originally taken from Africa for use in NASA’s space program — became American pioneers of a whole other sort: the first beneficiaries of an inspired piece of retirement legislation passed by the United States government. Under the watchful eyes of animal behaviorists, veterinarians, enrichment specialists and daily caretakers, Rita and Teresa checked in on the afternoon of April 4 at the recently opened Chimp Haven, the first federally financed, taxpayer-supported retirement home for chimpanzees.
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Sphere: Related ContentThis from Gizmodo, just what i need after a non stop fortnight of high pressured work:)
The legend reads:
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… says the Chief of the British Police, on his men shooting dead an unarmed Brazilian, in London.
I was talking to Bonti on mail in the UK, and basically asking her on how she and her family were after the bombings. She was fine, having missed the bombings by about 10 minutes, but she wrote to me, and i quote:
The mood in London is a combination of sympathy and a real desire to catch the b@stards and make them pay…My concern is that anyone with brown skin could now be in danger if they live in neighbourhoods with ignorant people, but the divide in the asian community between muslims and non-muslims is becoming more apparent. And what a lot of people forget is that Islam is colourblind and muslim population is made up of brown, black, white, and yellow….
It is being seen as a Muslim Problem in the west. And Bonti is right, Muslim is seen as brown. And brown is targetted. How does it matter if a Spaniard or a Brazilian or a Hopi Indian is also brown? Or that Cat Stevens is white? or a Mohommad Ali Black?
It is a receipe for paranoid times ahead.
The one thing that stands out is the British System, which owns up and apologises for an error. Hats off to them.
Quite unlike either the US or us, where bluster often whitewishes a cock up!
The Mumbai Mirror has replaced the ToI as my favourite Loo read. From this mornings’ Mumbai Mirror online (front page), the link reads - Ask the Sexpert :
* I have never had extramarital sex. Recently, I started flirting with our housemaid. We were about have sex (with her consent) but held back for the fear of contracting STD or AIDS. I had not penetrated into her vagina but just touched it with my penis. Is there a chance that I might contract a disease? She claims to not have had any extramarital affair either.
The answer from the (s)expert:
Sex with any unknown partner is unsafe. It is advisable to stick to one partner.
ROTFL. Is there a society for the protection of Housemaids? and a society for the protection from journalists who make up this kind of shit!
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