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...farmer for 18 years, Somphong got into the business of raising tigers after buying four of them from the Chiang Mai Zoo in 1990. Since then he has bred the females twice a year. He admits that his long-term goal is to persuade Thai authorities to allow him to breed tigers and sell their parts, after they die naturally, to medicine makers. A traditional-medicine specialist from Xian, China, is already seeing patients at the farm, which doubles as a clinic. So far, the Thai authorities are dead set against raising tigers for medical use. ``They hope we will...
...upon its own people and attempted, at terrible cost to its own soldiers, to level their capital city. For all the destruction and death, there was no victory to be had. David was defying Goliath, a Goliath that had held the world in fear for a half-century. It bred a creepy sense of things coming unhinged, of supposed verities turned upside down, of heroes and villains switching roles, of future dangers that looked all the scarier because it was hard to tell which scenario to fear the most...
...nearly 100 million newborns each year. So it was more than welcome news when the Philippines-based International Rice Research Institute announced a new strain of rice that yields as much as 25% more grain per acre than existing plants do. Once disease and insect resistance have been bred into the rice, a process expected to take about five years, the miracle grain will be set to join the fight against hunger...
...imposing health standards as part of its registration process. Rather than wait for that step, individual- breed clubs are taking their own action. At least three Rottweiler clubs have ruled that dogs missing more than one tooth, which can be a sign of a genetic defect, may not be bred. English springer spaniel owners are encouraging one another not to breed dogs with temperament problems; they want to eliminate what they call the "rage syndrome," a type of brain seizure that makes some dogs lose control. And the Portuguese Water Dog Club requires breeders who advertise in its magazine...
...folly and wonder of men. Scott Handy is Orlando, properly perplexed at the vision of a man (Lester) playing a woman (Rosalind), who for the sake of a jest is playing a man. Simon Coates is deliciously censorious as Rosalind's companion, Celia, a young lady well bred in exasperation; some day she may grow up to be Oscar Wilde's Lady Bracknell...