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Animal lovers and politicians are up in arms that the National Institute of Health is refusing to keep its paws off 28 lab chimps that are no longer being used for research — even though the law requires them to resettle the senior simians at a sprawling Louisiana sanctuary, RadarOnline.com has learned. It has been over two decades since the Alamogordo Primate Facility in New Mexico stopped experimenting on the chimps — and a 2000 federal law — the CHIMP Act, for Chimpanzee Health Improvement Maintenance Protection — says they must ship the retired animals to Chimp Haven, a 200-acre protected …

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