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...just after dawn in the hills of South Sumatra, but Jema'ah is hard at work. Jema'ah, 39, normally feeds his family of four by tramping from village to village buying vegetables from farmers and then reselling them to dealers, a practice that nets him about $40 in a good month. Today, if he's lucky, he will earn twice that in a few hours. "Pangolin are usually asleep in their nests at this time of day," he says, squatting down in front of a rabbit-hole-sized opening in a low embankment. After piling dried leaves and twigs...
...organs that purportedly have curative powers. They include the rapidly vanishing tiger and the unfortunate pangolin. According to the dictionary, pangolin scales can be "used to cure tumefaction [swelling], promote blood circulation and help breast-feeding mothers produce milk." If he wanted a more up-to-date answer, Jema'ah could also have asked Wei Hong, a Guangdong native in his mid-30s who developed a taste for pangolin meat when his father bought some 20 years ago in the hope of curing a skin disease. With the meat now selling at an exorbitant $100 a kilogram, Wei, a journalist...
...forests once teemed with pangolin. But the reproductive capacity of the slow-moving mammal is no match for Chinese appetites, and pangolins have been all but eradicated on the mainland. Now gourmets, traditional medicine practitioners and businessmen looking to show off their wealth rely on the likes of Jema'ah. But even in distant Sumatran forests, the pangolin is growing harder to find. "I used to catch big ones" of up to 20 kilograms, Jema'ah says. "But the biggest I catch these days are eight kilos...
...year; similar lawsuits are pending in New Jersey, New York and Washington. With several states having amended their constitutions to ban gay marriage--and Massachusetts the only one to have legalized it, albeit by court order--many observers say the issue will end up before the U.S. Supreme Court. Ah, yet another question for Chief Justice nominee John Roberts. --By Terry McCarthy. With reporting by Eli Sanders
...indeed, everyone's." David Evans (yet to be called the Edge) was a top student in his Mount Temple class, but he had been spending spare time "strumming away" on acoustic and electric guitar. When he saw that notice, he felt a decidedly nonacademic stirring in his soul. "Ah," he thought, "this could be it." Mullen had been playing drums since the age of nine, charging money for household chores ("I should have done them anyway, I know") in hopes of getting his own kit. His parents finally gave him part of a set -- made by a toy manufacturer...