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...genetic specialization, driving the industry toward what ecologists call monocultures--vast numbers of a single variety. According to the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy (ALBC), 15 different breeds of pigs were raised for market in the 1930s; today, six of them are extinct. Only three varieties--Hampshire, Yorkshire and Duroc--account for 75% of U.S. production. In the 1920s, some 60 breeds of chickens thrived on American farms; today one hybrid, the Cornish Rock cross, supplies nearly every supermarket. A single turkey dominates: the Broad Breasted White, a fast-growing commercial creation with such a huge breast and short legs that...
...Before the troubles had run their course, Lloyd Parry would see men eating human flesh in Borneo, bodies burning in the streets of Jakarta, and a seemingly unassailable government collapse. In the Time of Madness is a deeply felt account of his time covering Indonesia's implosion; what it lacks in depth or context, it makes up for in sensitivity and humility. This is a book less about Indonesia than about Lloyd Parry himself, how the carnage he witnesses burrows into his soul, leaving him sickeningly vulnerable when the time of madness reaches its horrifying climax in East Timor. There...
...officer reported to Hollis Hall in response to an alleged e-mail account fraud, in which an individual had sent out e-mails without the consent of the owner. The officer filed a report of the identity fraud...
...officer reported to Hollis Hall in response to an alleged e-mail account fraud, in which an individual had sent out e-mails without the consent of the owner. The officer filed a report of the identity fraud...
...will begin next year.] Apparently, a politician can promise a certain amount of things but break those promises if the election outcome is good. That's too Machiavellian for my taste. Christian Westling Stockholm Trauma Clinic I was appalled by the grisly realities described in Aparisim Ghosh's harrowing account of a day in the emergency room at Baghdad's Yarmouk Hospital [May 16]. Conditions couldn't be worse for the medical staff and the unfortunate victims of insurgent attacks. But most frustrating is the bungling ineptitude in providing Iraqis with basic health-care essentials. After all, the U.S. Congress...