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...trio of long-haired teenagers grasped the plaza wall to shield their bodies as hundreds of youths kicked and punched them while filming the beating on cell phone cameras. "Kill the emos," shouted the assailants, who had organized over the Internet to launch the attack in Mexico's central city of Queretaro. After police eventually steamed in and made arrests, the bloody victims lay sobbing on the concrete waiting for ambulances while the mob ran through the nearby streets laughing and cheering. Mexican news footage of the attacks...
...find some of Jiang's purplest prose indigestible. "Desperate cries rose from the herd as the wolves tore into one horse after another - sides and chests spurted blood, the stench of which drove the crazed predators to commit acts of frenzied cruelty," is his description of a wolf attack on a herd of prize horses. "The raw meat in their mouths meant nothing to the wolves: only the murderous tearing of horseflesh mattered." More problematically, the book contains puzzling chunks in which Jiang details his pet theory: that thousands of years of farming have turned the Chinese into a spineless...
...Karen Tumulty and David Von Drehle talk about how Hillary Clinton is obsessed with winning and has been mounting relentless attacks against Obama. That's the case with any candidate trying to catch up. Didn't Obama attack Clinton with the same intensity when she was considered the front runner? Winning is also Obama's goal. Neither candidate is more innocent than the other - it's just how the game is played. So no need to scream bloody murder when Clinton is on the offensive. Brenda Huang, San Jose, Calif...
...Wrongs? It seems foolhardy and arrogant to push forward with geoengineering processes that would result in alterations of climatic and marine systems [March 24]. Instead of seeking ways to mitigate the effect of greenhouse gases, policymakers should attack the problem head-on by regulating industry. The solution to global warming is to stop putting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Anything short of this will ultimately fail. Alan Foreman, Cambridge, Massachusetts...
Maggi has been a leading pioneer on the Brazilian frontier, and it irks him that critics in the U.S.--which cleared its forests and settled its frontier 125 years ago but still provides generous subsidies to its farmers--attack him for doing the same thing except without subsidies and with severe restrictions on deforestation. Imagine Iowa farmers agreeing to keep 80%--or even 20%--of their land in native prairie grass. "You make us sound like bandits," Maggi tells me. "But we want to achieve what you achieved in America. We have the same dreams for our families...