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The state of war does not mean that every nation is constantly at the brink of war or actually at war with other nations. wow gold,though, do feel threatened by some states at some time, and every state has experienced periods of intense insecurity. No two contiguous states, moreover, have had a history of close, friendly relations uninterrupted by severe tension if not outright war. Because a nation cannot look to a supreme body to enforce laws, nor count on other nations for constant aid and support, it must rely on its own efforts, particularly for defense against attack. Coexistence in an anarchic environment thus requires self-help. The psychological outlook that self-help breeds is best described by a saying common among British statesmen since Palmerston: "Great Britain has no permanent enemies or permanent friends, she has only permanent interests."
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lmaomao · Joined: 25 Jun 2009 Posts: 5

The Einstein of the fish world may be the nine-spined stickleback, suggests new research that determined this common European fish possesses an unusually sophisticated capacity for learning not yet documented in any other animal, aside from humans.
The unassuming, small-headed fish proves tiny brains can yield "surprising cognitive abilities," according to project leader Jeremy Kendal, whose team discovered the stickleback can compare the behavior of other fish with its own experiences in order to make better choices.
This learning method, known as "hill-climbing," is necessary for cumulative culture and was thought to be unique to humans.
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"Cases such as nut-cracking in chimpanzees, or tool use in New Caledonian crows, are potentially consistent with such a strategy, but the strategy has yet to be shown unambiguously (in these other animals)," Kendal, a Durham University anthropologist, told Discovery News.
For the study, published in the journal Behavioral Ecology, he and his colleagues caught 270 nine-spined sticklebacks in Leicester, England. The fish were organized into experimental groups. These fish groups then took turns as either free swimmers in a tank with worm-yielding feeders at the end, or as "learners" in a transparent, partitioned-off area of the specially designed tank.
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One of the two feeders released more worms than the other. The fish quickly gravitated to this "rich feeder." When these fish then went into the observation semi-circle portion of the tank, the researchers swapped the feeders. The new free swimmers, as before, made a beeline for the feeder with a more plentiful worm reward.
When the observation fish group was released back into the part of the tank with the feeders, 75 percent were "clever" enough to know from watching the other sticklebacks that the feeders had been switched, so they didn't just rely upon their own experience with the feeders.
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Additional research conducted by the same team of scientists found that the likelihood of copying the behavior of another increased with the rate at which this other individual fed. The fish aren't therefore just mindlessly copying each other. They are instead "being selective about when and who they copy."
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Kendal thinks the nine-spined stickleback might have been "forced to learn" this rather complex strategy because the species is scrawnier than many other fish, with an anatomy that doesn't offer significant protection from predators. Instead of risking being eaten while searching for food, it benefits the fish to find out exactly where the best sources are at ahead of time and to go directly to them.
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"It is possible that, rather than evolve to become more sturdy, it is less costly for the nine-spines to evolve the capacity to exploit foraging information provided by observing others," he explained, mentioning that tougher three-spined sticklebacks don't seem to have such a brainy solution to foraging challenges.
Culum Brown, a University of Edinburgh researcher and editor of the book "Fish Cognition and Behavior," told Discovery News, the study "shows that fishes are using a mixture of their own knowledge and weighing it up against cultural information."
"In many ways," Brown said, "fish are just as smart as other animals."
While fish seem to exhibit frequent flashes of mental brilliance, the stickleback's hill-climbing strategy has yet to result in more human-like, high-tech capabilities, probably because fish habitats are so unstable.
"A massive constraint for the fish is that the environment can change rapidly, so information about a good foraging site can become redundant after a short time," Kendal said. "This resets the cumulative process and the fish have to start again acquiring new information."
"This means we might not expect any spectacular cumulative cultural evolution like seen in humans," he said, "but watch this space. We know so little and are constantly surprised about what they can do!"

aamaomao · Joined: 10 Aug 2009 Posts: 5

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Michelangelo was the greatest of Florence’s artists. Visitors line up2 for hours at the Accademia Mu－seum for a look at his impressive David. This 140-foot-high statue (雕像) has become the ideal human figure of the Renaissance. David is an example of Michelangelo’s talent for sculpting people simply, yet powerfully.
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abwenzi · Joined: 29 Aug 2009 Posts: 5

When scientists scan the global horizon, over-fishing, loss of species habitat, water shortage, climate change, and invasive species seem to be the biggest threats to the Earth.
What will our world be like in 2050?
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A research team from the University of Colorado used satellite data to estimate that the ice sheet will lose up to 48 cubic miles by 2050. In comparison, a city with the size of Los Angeles uses one cubic mile of fresh water every year. Ice shelves in the Antarctic will have decreased by more than 7,200 square miles in the next four decades.
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Four wheels good, four wheels bad The car has transformed the lives of people, but the planet is paying too high a price. Today there are 620 million private cars worldwide, to say nothing of buses, vans and lorries. With current growth trends, that number is expected to reach a staggering three billion cars worldwide by 2050.

If we continue to burn fossil fuels at current rates, levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will reach 550 ppm (parts per million) by around 2050. This will increase global temperatures between 1.4 and 4.8℃ by 2050, and sea levels will rise between 0.09 and 0.78 meters.

xinshangl · Joined: 17 Dec 2009 Posts: 5

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"Here, give me the little girl. I will adopt her!"And Karen believed all this happened on account of the red

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"Thou art more thannice, thou art beautiful!"Now the queen once travelled through the land, and she had her

little daughterwith her. And this little daughter was a princess, and people streamed to thecastle, and Karen was

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"That must be patent leather!" said the old lady. "They shine so!""Yes, they shine!" said Karen, and they fitted,

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Everybody looked at her feet; and when she stepped through the chancel door onthe church pavement, it seemed to

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hand upon her head, and spoke of the holybaptism, of the covenant with God, and how she should be now a

maturedChristian; and the organ pealed so solemnly; the sweet children's voices sang,and the old music-directors

sang, but Karen only thought of her red shoes.

In the afternoon, the old lady heard from everyone that the shoes had beenred, and she said that it was very

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Karen raised her foot to get in after her, when the old soldier said,"Look, what beautiful dancing shoes!"And

Karen could not help dancing a step or two, and when she began her feetcontinued to dance; it was just as though

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wasobliged to run after and catch hold of her, and he lifted her in the carriage,but her feet continued to dance

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The congregation sat in cushioned seats, and sang out of their Prayer-Books.

And the organ pealed, and the children's voices in the choir sounded so sweetand soft! The clear sunshine

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Ramya · Joined: 22 Dec 2009 Posts: 5

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I know now that the man who sat with me on the old wooden stairs that hot summer night over thirty-five years ago

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