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Many people insisted on starting their description with "I am California." Do inhabitants of the West Coast regard themselves as a separate breed? Apparently many don't even want to contaminate the race with "those back-Easterners" and insist on rooming with other Californians...
...tale illustrates the astonishing behind-the-scenes influence wielded by Ryoichi Sasakawa, 75, the most powerful remaining member of a vanishing breed of Japanese kingmakers known as kuromaku. The word translates literally as black curtain,* but the closest equivalent in American slang of the power it connotes is godfather. Through his enormous fortune (his real estate holdings alone are estimated at $71.4 million) and the huge store of giri (moral obligations) he has accumulated over the years by dispensing favors and finances, Sasakawa has a puissance that any American influence peddler would envy...
...Your article concerning the deterioration of the St. Bernard [July 29] should have mentioned that inbreeding intensifies both good and bad qualities. It is clear that most of the offending animals are either products of backyard breeders without knowledge or regard for quality, or of puppy mills that breed indiscriminately to satisfy demand. Inbreeding is not in itself damaging. The critical factor is who practices...
...York City from 1965 to 1970. They report that more than 43% of the bites in the survey were by dogs weighing 50 lbs. or more. Confirming their findings, Urban Ecologist Alan Beck, also of Washington University, says that from 1963 to 1973, A.K.C. registrations of large-breed dogs increased dramatically (100% for German shepherds, 600% for Great Danes, 1,000% for St. Bernards...
...twelve-mile territorial sea, and 2) a 200-mile-wide "economic zone" for exploitation of minerals and fish-all contingent upon free transit of ships through all straits. Nations bordering on the sea would control fish species classified as coastal (cod, haddock) and anadromous (salmon and other varieties that breed in fresh water and spend most of their adult lives in the open seas); they would have first rights to harvest these species and would be allowed to license foreigners to take the rest. Management of wide-ranging oceanic species such as tuna, swordfish and whales would be left...