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• Italian raid on mafia nets actor who played boss
Director Matteo Garrone's study of the Naples-based Camorra won second place at the Cannes Film Festival this spring and is Italy's hopeful for a best foreign language film at the Academy Awards in the United States. The movie is based on a book by ...
• Obama reacts to Lewis
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• Palin tries to shift talk to abortion
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• John Lewis vs. John McCain
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• Guess what? There's no harm in a little gossip
But Robin Dunbar, a professor of evolutionary anthropology at the University of Oxford, detailed in his book "Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language" (Harvard University Press) his discovery that a group capable of language (that is, humans ...