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Namibia has 3,000 cheetahs--the single largest remaining population in Africa--but ranchers shoot them for attacking cattle. Laurie Marker of the Cheetah Conservation Fund has been importing Anatolian shepherds, 160-lb. dogs bred in Turkey to protect livestock from wolves. She trains the Anatolians and then gives them to ranches, where they will stand their ground against the much smaller cheetah. Problem cheetahs that kill cattle are sometimes captured and fed an alternating diet of wild game and beef laced with lithium chloride. The beef sickens the cheetahs, persuading them to stick to wild meat...
Although plausible, why does this sound a bit like rationalization? Because for centuries Protestantism's huge numbers had significant consequences: it bred most of America's founders and elite, and served as a template for its civil institutions and cultural assumptions. Huntington, a cheerleader, has credited it with our "core culture" of "individualism, the work ethic, and moralism." Protestant tropes of human perfectibility and the city on the hill continue to echo through political rhetoric. Comments Christian Smith, a sociologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: "the mainline always thought, we are America. What...
...born and bred in France, but he was mercurial, synchronized to the changing tides of history. He was in China on the eve of revolution and with Mahatma Gandhi 15 minutes before his death. But Cartier-Bresson was not a reporter. The world in process was his raw material. He was difficult to define, and he could not be contained, as the Germans found out when he escaped from a prison camp during World War II and joined the Resistance...
...upset at the 2004 Belmont Stakes, where a win would have made him the second undefeated Triple Crown winner in history alongside Seattle Slew, who won in 1977; to a breeding farm in Midway, Kentucky. The injury was not career ending, but owners reined in the heroic Philadelphia-bred colt to avoid risk of further damage. "If anything else went wrong, it would break our heart," said owner Patricia Chapman...
...stores be fined $10,000 if a clerk tosses bananas from Costa Rica under a shelf tag reading ECUADOR? Should the same ocean-caught fish be labeled NORWEGIAN or AMERICAN, depending on the flag of the ship? And what's a consumer to make of hamburger that contains beef bred in Canada, fattened in the U.S. and ground up with Australian trimmings...