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...first and most poignant casualties of the 1996 drought have been the cattle, grazing on blighted fields of stubble. Feed prices have, in some instances, tripled, while prices for cattle have been plummeting. Trying to stave off the inevitable, ranchers south of San Antonio have been hiring day laborers to "burn pear," Texas lingo for applying a butane torch to the cactus and searing off the spines so that cattle can munch on what remains. But many ranchers across the affected regions have given up, offering at auction the creatures they can no longer afford to feed...
...When Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith fell in love, they demonstrated their affection in ways few could miss. The pregnancy that soon followed made news as well. But the heretofore frenetically expressive couple were married last week in a very private ceremony in London. After all, one ought to maintain some sense of decorum...
DIED. LUIS MIGUEL DOMINGUIN, 69, bullfighter whose rivalry with toreador brother-in-law Antonio Ordonez was immortalized by Ernest Hemingway; following a stroke; in Sotogrande, Spain. His affairs with screen idols Ava Gardner and Lana Turner were chronicled in loving detail by gossip columnists...
Light-heavyweight boxer Antonio Tarver of Orlando, Florida, took another step toward an anticipated Olympic medal when he outpointed Anthony Stewart of Chicago, 17 to 0, in the U.S. Olympic Box-Offs last week, earning a trip to Atlanta. Other newly named Olympic pugilists include lightweight Terrance Cauthen, welterweight Fernando Vargas and light-middleweight David Reid, all of whom should be medal contenders in their weight classes at the Games...
...Team Tarver will be in Atlanta if, as expected, Antonio makes the Olympic team this week. "Oh, man," he says of completing his quest, "it would be a wonderful, wonderful thing...