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  • Law Number L: The average regulation has a life span one-fifth as long as a chimpanzee's and one-tenth as long as a human's, but four times as long as the official's who created it.

    Augustine's Laws - and Ares 1 - NASA Watch 2009

  • Magic Mulatto, Mrs. YoMama, Touching A Tar Baby, Your Boy, Orbameo, Watermelons on the White House Lawn, cartoons with the President Obama's head and a chimpanzee's body, references to monkeys who escaped the zoo being related to the First Lady, and the list goes on with the racial slurs that have been hurled at this President and his family.

    Catherine Meeks, Ph.D.: All The Voices Are White, And They Are Being Heard Ph.D. Catherine Meeks 2012

  • Magic Mulatto, Mrs. YoMama, Touching A Tar Baby, Your Boy, Orbameo, Watermelons on the White House Lawn, cartoons with the President Obama's head and a chimpanzee's body, references to monkeys who escaped the zoo being related to the First Lady, and the list goes on with the racial slurs that have been hurled at this President and his family.

    Catherine Meeks, Ph.D.: All The Voices Are White, And They Are Being Heard Ph.D. Catherine Meeks 2012

  • But instinct like that chimpanzee's does take over at times in a good way.

    The Suffering of Others Fresca 2010

  • Nash's family is suing the chimpanzee's owner, Sandra Herold, for $50 million and wants to sue the state for $150 million, saying state officials failed to prevent the attack.

    Charla Nash, Chimp Attack Victim, Discharged From Hospital 2010

  •  Ezra found such repetition comforting, and he had always enjoyed what he took to be the chimpanzee's look of absolute concentration and self-assurance.

    Bread, Fish, Serpent, Stone 2010

  • Ardipithecus (center) had small canine teeth that resemble a human's (below) more closely than a chimpanzee's (far right).

    Catch a Pithecus by the Toe 2010

  • "She believed that a critical mass of humans would most likely come to her cause if they imagined their own hands reaching for the curl of a chimpanzee's finger."

    Jon Cohen's "Almost Chimpanzee," reviewed by Deborah Blum 2010

  • Nash's family is suing the chimpanzee's owner, Sandra Herold, for $50 million and wants to sue the state for $150 million, saying state officials failed to prevent the attack.

    Charla Nash Face Transplant: Chimp Attack Victim Could Receive New Face 2010

  • The chimpanzee's rampage forced Ms. Herold to stab her beloved pet with a butcher knife and pound him with a shovel.

    Sandy Herold; Mary Page Stegner 2010

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