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...Hemingway had met Robert Twigger on the road, he would probably have beaten him up and taken his per diem. The shy, scholarly Twigger's The Extinction Club (William Morrow; 222 pages) is about the elusive Pere David's deer, an anatomical cocktail of an animal with backward-facing horns, a long, thick camel neck and a donkey's tail. For centuries the only Pere David's in the world lived in a walled park outside Beijing, where they were hunted exclusively by the Emperor of China, until an enterprising missionary (the eponymous Pere) smuggled a few specimens...
...scooters could easily be switched over to a hydrogen-based power source. One of the $8,000 machine's coolest features is its steering and braking system, which uses a series of gyroscopes to sense and respond to your body's movements: lean forward, and the Segway accelerates. Lean backward, and it stops...
...Savage, the tree farmer, believes otherwise. He will be in North Korea with his Israeli irrigation engineers this week, setting up greenhouses and touching base with his North Korean partners. But he acknowledges his venture will require patience. The country "may be a bit backward," he concedes, "but so what? If you are prepared to help, it will take off like a bloody bullet." Or a paulownia tree...
...search now for the remnants of what was once a magnificent manifestation of this great country's landscape: a sentient, powerful, secretive creature that knows how to walk backward, stepping in its own tracks when it is aware it is being followed. A creature that descends into the earth to sleep for six months of the year, where the mother gives birth to two fist-size babies, even in the midst of her sleep beneath the snow, in January, with the embryos having delayed their implantation for months, waiting to see if there will be enough resources to support them...
...were injured after a passenger train collided with a freight train in Igandu, in the central Dodoma region about 400 km west of the country's largest city, Dar es Salaam. Witnesses said the passenger train was climbing a hill when its brakes failed. It then rolled backward, picking up speed, until it plowed into the freight train heading up the same line just behind it. Twenty-one of the passenger train's 22 cabins derailed, making it difficult for rescuers to get to the injured. INDIA Attacks Resume Eight Indian soldiers and five suspected militants were among 20 people...