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Impact - July 1999
Submitted on 7.31.1999
July 1999 PRI Ideas in Action
Policy Update and Monthly Impact Report
Science News: Life Imitates Art--Again
Submitted by Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D on 7.27.1999
Years ago I recall a cartoon in a lampoon issue of National Review that showed a pot-bellied Archie Bunker-type reading the newspaper and commenting to his wife-in-curlers: "Sez here they’ve taught chimpanzees to speak. Great--another Third World country in the U.N." Sure enough, on Monday came the news out of Georgia State University that researchers there have taught a chimp a vocabulary and grammar of about 3,000 words, and have "conversed" with the chimp by means of a Stephen Hawking-style voice box.
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