International Business News - Now http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif For most folks, a nice hug and some sympathy can help a bit after we get pushed around. Turns out, chimpanzees use hugs and kisses the same way. And it works. Researchers studying people's closest genetic relatives found that stress was reduced in chimps that were victims of aggression if a third chimp stepped in to offer consolation. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/73197-there-there-now.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080616/study-chimps-calm-each-other-with-hugs-kisses.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080616/study-chimps-calm-each-other-with-hugs-kisses.htm Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:15:48 EDT Eight years after bashing the Clinton administration for squandering U.S. resources on "nation building" around the world, Condoleezza Rice is singing a different tune. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080609/rice-changes-mind-on-nation-building.htm Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:06:15 EDT As the waters rose around her house, Ohn Tay grabbed her 8-year-old son and scrambled to safety. Hours later, she gave birth to a baby girl. Her husband is missing, but the young mother and her children are safe _ crammed into a Buddhist monastery with a leaky roof, along with 150 other survivors, half of them children. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/44895-aptopix-myanmar-cyclone.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080508/myanmar-cyclone-victim-takes-solace-in-new-baby.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080508/myanmar-cyclone-victim-takes-solace-in-new-baby.htm Thu, 08 May 2008 17:16:50 EDT