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Susan McCarthy is co-author with Marjorie Ingall of Sorry, Sorry, Sorry: The Case for Good Apologies. Ingall & McCarthy write Sorrywatch.com, a website which analyzes apologies. McCarthy also writes about wildlife and animal behavior. She’s co-author of the international bestseller When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals, and author of Becoming a Tiger: How Baby Animals Learn to Live in the Wild. Not literally raised by wolves, McCarthy lives in San Francisco.

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  • The dog’s ignoring you — that’s fantastic!

    I was lucky enough to write this story for Parade about detecting cancer by the sense of smell. It starts with dogs and moves on to technological nose equivalents. Check it out — there's video. The electronic and chemical noses researchers in this story are working on will do only a fraction of what a…