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...ADI staff spent two years undercover working inside Bolivia's circuses documenting animal abuse, which included forcing pregnant lions to jump through fire and keeping brown bears in 6-by-9-ft. cages. A handful of countries, including Israel and Costa Rica, prohibit the use of wild animals as performers, but Bolivia is the first to extend the ban to all animals, including domestic species like dogs, horses and llamas. "We are extremely proud," says Bolivian Congresswoman Ximena Flores, the law's main proponent. (Read a Q&A about the illegal trade in wildlife...
...sticker slogan of the animal-rights movement, and Bolivia has heard the message: the left-leaning government of the Andean country recently passed the world's first legislation prohibiting the use of all animals in circuses. That's a huge victory for the London-based organization Animal Defenders International (ADI), which agitated for the ban. But it has left the group and others like it facing the challenge of finding homes for 22 lions and a few primates, which will be euthanized if none are available...
...Harvard Business Review has chosen Adi Ignatius, a deputy managing editor at Time Magazine, to be its next editor-in-chief, its publisher announced Tuesday. The post had been vacant since June...
...same time, we are already experiencing strong demand for our new book about Obama--even before its publication. President Obama: The Path to the White House, superbly edited by Adi Ignatius and beautifully designed by Sharon Okamoto, combines original material on Obama's journey with a collection of the best reporting and writing from TIME's political team on his rise and historic victory. And it is overflowing with Callie Shell's incredible and intimate photographs of Obama, selected by photo editor Crary Pullen, many of which have never before been seen in print. "In clear and colorful storytelling," says...
...When Barack Obama was 6 years old, he was the only foreign child in his neighborhood in Jakarta, Indonesia. He didn't know the kids, didn't speak the language. At first the locals were a little freaked out, says Zulfin Adi, 47, who as a kid lived a block from Obama. "He was so much bigger than the rest of us." So they decided to haze him. One day a group of children ambushed him, carried him to the local watering hole and threw him in. They had no idea if he could swim. But when Obama came...