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Chimpanzee 'Civil War' and Lessons About Social Collapse

In the mid-1970s Jane Goodall, after more than a decade observing chimpanzees at Tanzania’s Gombe National Park, recorded something that overturned her earlier impressions: a once-unified community split into two factions that began systematically killing one another.

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A Quarter of Private Colleges Are at Risk

CRAFTSBURY COMMON, Vt. — On Sterling College’s 130-acre farm, newborn lambs frolicked while students checked fencing and feed, a hands-on classroom for agricultural majors. The pastoral scene belied a stark reality: the remote, cellphone-dead campus is set to close at the end of the semester.