Vandeberg also defends his research facility, saying that the animals in his primate research center receive better care than most people in the world.

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But the legislation is not to everyone's liking. John VandeBerg, director of the Southwest National Primate Research Center in San Antonio,Texas, says the use of chimpanzees in biomedical research is essential.

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our chimps even have televisions." But such creature comforts don't change the fact that chimpanzees used in medical research may suffer or die, and that's unacceptable to famed primate expert Jane Goodall.

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Human children depend on adults for much longer than those of any other primate.

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But one very important primate was missing when the the airmen left the west Cork town.

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Also at the ceremony were the Catholic Primate Archbishop Sean Brady, the Garda Commissioner Pat Byrne and RUC widows.

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