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...Russia trade relations are wobbling on a greasy pair of "Bush legs"--that's what the Russians call the chicken drumsticks that have been a popular U.S. product in Russia since the first Bush Administration. As the White House moved toward imposing tariffs on foreign steel in early March, Russia revoked licenses to import U.S. poultry and made the ban effective March 10. Its official beef? Antibiotics and additives used by U.S. poultry farmers may be O.K. for Americans but are too foul for Russians. More likely, the blow to the U.S. poultry industry's $600 million annual sales...
...death the killer delivers is gruesome. The poison?a few spoonfuls of purple crystal granules of carbofuran, an insecticide, mixed with chicken or duck meat?acts fast, attacking the nervous system much like sarin gas. In minutes, the dogs are drooling and their muscles begin to twitch. Within an hour, they are violently convulsing. If the poison cannot be expunged, they die of shock and respiratory failure. "They are absolutely frantic," says veterinarian Lloyd Kenda. "I'd rather never see another case again...
...unusually round face, wore blue cotton work clothes and spoke passable English. The two men exchanged greetings. The man was "a bit strange," Midgely says, "not ominously strange, just as if he were a bit wacky." He carried a red plastic bag containing a trowel and bits of chicken that he claimed were for feeding the birds and dogs...
...growing up in Hong Kong's rural Sheung Shui, Lau, the son of chicken farmers, hardly played with toy figures. "We were too poor," he says. (Today he has 30 boxes full of G.I. Joe, Ren and Stimpy, Playmobil and The Simpsons dolls in storage.) An artistic streak led him to design college, then to a stint as a struggling painter and part-time window-display designer for a department store. Lau got into 3-D art by accident. "The big change in my career was in 1997, when my friends in a band called Anodize asked...
Maybe the best part of going off for the weekend is coming back to school. After clearing one’s mind in the mountain air, the chicken parmesan tastes that much more delicious, and the roommates seem that much more hygienic. (Is it just you or does the room smell better? It’s just you.) You might be surprised how much fun you can have at Harvard without even being here...