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...Working Girl: Although the Derby is an all-male affair this year, trainer Jenine Sahadi is attracting ink as she bids to become the first woman to train a winner in the race's history. Sahadi conditions the Irish-bred colt The Deputy, who should go off as the bettors' second choice and provide competition for Fusaichi Pegasus down the stretch. Since shipping across the Atlantic late last year, The Deputy has won three of four starts, including the Santa Anita Derby, the major California Derby prep, in which he handed second-best War Chant his first career loss...
...According to the scholar Nathan C. Shiverick ’52, the leisure bred by wealth creates a demand for an outlet to pass the time and expend energy and aggression. The conclusion of the Civil War ushered in great fortunes for some Bostonians. But Shiverick argues that more lies behind the phenomenon. In the 1880s, when the Irish gained municipal control of the city, the Brahmins were politically disenfranchised. The former ruling class of Boston reasserted itself by creating private charitable corporations and a network of hospitals, schools, almshouses. It was more than nobless oblige; it was a desire...
...biodiversity. Throughout history, people have cultivated or gathered 7,000 plant species for food. Today only 20 species provide 90% of the world's food and three--maize, wheat and rice--supply more than half. Tens of thousands of species of the world's still surviving flora can be bred or provide genes to increase production in deserts, saline flats and other marginal habitats...
...news has caused consternation in Europe, where GM food has become a particularly hot issue, with environmentalists concerned about the modified fish's potential impact on wildlife. They say that although the experimental fish are bred to be sterile, one mistake - one fish that escapes - could ruin wild populations. The GM fish are known to have a lower egg-survival rate, weaker muscle structure and poorer swimming performance than normal salmon. But the economic arguments seem sure to outweigh the environmental ones. "After all, we've practically fished out our oceans already," says TIME science writer Frederic Golden...
...would this super performance be good for the suddenly superbody? Hang too much muscle on the skeletal system or place too much strain on the cardiopulmonary system, and something's bound to give. Racehorses--which are bred and trained for speeds they were not designed to run--suffer all manner of physical ills, from fractured legs to bleeding lungs, as a result of overuse. "You don't have these problems in antelopes and cheetahs, but in horses, we've apparently pushed to the limit," says Weyand. "If a human ran a 2-min. mile, you might see the same thing...