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the same values and principles:vision,determination,selfcontrol,optimism,selfrespect and , above all , did not begin on the bottom rung of the begin in the ’s affairs were tiny。the greatest industrialists’ affairs were , after all,the balance sheets were exactly the only differencewaswhere you put the decimal At the funeral, the sixtyyearold pany prisident told the fortyeightyearold widow that the fiftyoneyearold deceased had meant much to the pany and would be missed would be hard to widow didn’t look him in the was afraid he would read her bitterness and ,after all ,she would need him to straighten out the financesthe stock options and all was overweight and nervous and worked too he wasn’t at the office ,he was worried about was a Type A, a heart—attack could have picked him out in a minute from Isquared my shoulders and saluted and held out the book to the woman ,even though while I spoke I felt chocked by the bitterness of my disappointment.“I’m Lieutenant John Blanchard , and you must be Miss am so glad you could meet me ,may I take you to the dinner?”The woman’s face brodened into a smile.“I don’t know what this is about ,son”, she answered , “but the young lady in the green suit who just went by ,she begged me to wear this rose on my she said if you were to ask me out to dinner ,I should go and tell you that she is waitting for you in the big restaurant across the said it was some kind of test!”Unit7Over the years, I have written extensively about animal—intelligence experiments and the controversy that surrounds animals really have thoughts ,what we call consciousness ? Wondering whether there might be better ways to explore animal intelligence than experiments designed to teach human signs ,I realized what now seems obvious : if animals can think ,they will probably do their best thinking when it serves their own purposes , not when scientists ask them so Istarted talking to vets ,animal reseachers , zoo do not study animal intelligence ,but they encounter it ,and the lack of it ,every stories they tell us reveal what I’m convinced is a new window on animal intelligence: the kind of mental feats animals perform when dealing with captivity and the dominant species on the planet—humans.