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With apologies to Jane Goodall’s furry colleagues, chimps are just not good people. A friend of mine lost the better part of his hand to a really nasty one and Dr. Goodall herself watched an all-male patrol systematically exacting genocide on the males of a neighboring troop. There is a profound difference between us, but genetically, we’re 98 percent alike. If we just nudged the evolutionary clock back the tiniest bit — on every airline passenger, Starbucks customer, coworker and passerby — our societies would dissolve in a horrifying bloodbath. But they don’t. We just board the plane and assume...

A 71-year-old man was shot in Chicago this week while watering his lawn as two men attempted to rob him. It was a little after 11 a.m. on Tuesday when the victim, Fred Laguardia, was approached by two suspects on bikes outside his home in Marquette Park. Home surveillance video taken from a neighbor's house shows the two men attempting to rob Laguardia, however he refused to give in to them. A struggle ensued and the senior citizen was thrown to the ground, where he was shot once in the abdomen by one of the men, according to WGNTV.

The boxing ring and spectator stands at Safari World zoo on the outskirts of Bangkok lie eerily neglected, as if they have been unused for more than just five months. Bouts stopped in August after a lengthy police investigation into allegations that the 115 fighters employed by the zoo were illegal migrants. After months of officials arguing, procrastinating and initially botching the scientific tests, the final result was announced last week. As well as the 45 fighters the zoo admitted to smuggling into Thailand, at least 12 others did not have proper permits. Welfare activists claim that this indicates a...