Natural Resistance: Can We Talk? Smart primates work together. BY MARY O'BRIEN I'm in the middle of a great book: A Primate's Memoir. Author Robert Sapolsky has spent 20 years in the fields of Kenya, watching wild chimpanzees. He admires Isaac, who avoids stress by not fighting to be the ruling male, and by spending a lot of time with his chimpanzee buddy, Rachel. Sapolsky dislikes Nebuchadnezzar, who is simply mean to others and then grabs somebody's baby as a shield when he's about to get his ass kicked. He watches the hermit-like Saul rule for years and then get nearly killed one day when a Gang of Six males pile on him. Inevitably, of course, Sapolsky also runs into the often harrowing human and environmental consequences of Africa's colonial past, including poverty. [Read More]   Viewpoint: Great Street Charts Eyeballing the corridors that connect. BY JERRY DIETHELM I got them at my favorite store over in the planning tools section, you know, the area behind city plumbing. All right! I thought. First visions, then policy plans and then planning tools. I've loved good tools ever since I discovered that it was difficult to do finish carpentry with a hatchet. [Read More]
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