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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To the Editor: “ What’s Next in the Law? It is time for us to widen our circle of compassion and follow Spain’s lead in granting legal rights to apes. Hope Ferdowsian Director of Research Policy Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine Washington, July 14, 2008 Suffering is far from a uniquely human experience.

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We Interrupt Regularly Scheduled.

Animal Person

a sense of hope that the empire in the North would finally exhibit compassion toward its southern neighbors, that the unfair trade agreements, privatizations, draconian IMF Structural Adjustment Programs, and threats of military intervention would slow down and perhaps even fade away. 1) DemocracyNow! 3) George W.

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