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...bears, says Rockwell. "Polar bears will eat anything they can get their grubby little mouths around," he says. "They'll take flightless geese, seals silly enough to get caught on shore when the tide goes out and caribou and moose calves. But they can't run fast enough to bring down adult moose or caribou." Grizzlies can and do - but the catch is, as soon as a grizzly knocks one down, the polar bears will smell it. "An adult male grizzly might weigh 600 lb. An adult polar bear is more like 1,500 lb. Grizzlies aren't stupid," says...
...Stop doing that awkward avoid-the-elephant-in-the-room mumble whenever someone tries to bring up blocking...
Critics of direct mass democracy say many ballot measures are flawed and incoherent and that hot-button measures - such as initiatives on immigration, guns and offshore drilling - are designed to bring out certain groups of voters on Election Day. As Kimball points out, the biggest positive of the initiative process is that states with ballot measures as part of the political culture are more responsive to the citizenry than states without. The biggest negative is that the cumulative effect of initiatives - some of them constitutional amendments nearly cast in stone - severely hamstrings state legislators and governors as they do their...
...blame is certainly going around. Many conspiracists accuse "foreign hands," more specifically Anglo-Saxons, for the Greek and Spanish crises, arguing that they have always hated the euro and are now using their hedge funds and media operations to bring it down. Some suggest that speculators are attacking the euro to block moves toward tougher European Union regulation of the market. Others, like European Central Bank chief economist Jürgen Stark, suggest people are perpetrating a ruse to hide the U.K.'s budget deficit. "It's astonishing to see where most of the criticism of the euro is coming...
...were on full alert across the country, fearing that Thaksin's supporters might riot if the verdict went against him. But while the streets of Bangkok were calm immediately after the verdict was read, Thaksin's allies vowed to hold a massive protest in Bangkok on March 14 to bring down the current government. (See photos of protests in Thailand...