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...hold your horses. (And that is this story's last pun. Promise). Few bills have stirred more passion, pro and con, than the Horse Slaughter Prevention Act. It passed the House by a vote of 263-146 Thursday (with a large majority of Democrats supporting it, even though they griped that the chamber had more pressing matters). Here's the issue: about 90,000 horses are sent each year to three plants in this country (two in Texas and one in Illinois, all foreign-owned), where they're slaughtered and the meat is shipped to restaurants in Europe and Asia...
...sort of. After studying music in college, he becomes a busy pianist, saxophonist and arranger at Disney theme parks and Hollywood studios, with a five-year interlude as musical director for Johnny Mathis. He wins three Emmys for scoring TV cartoons and starts getting assignments for mainstream movies like Con Air and Armageddon...
...basic needs to help people out of misery and poverty: water and electricity. So what if you could make point of use water with a little machine, instead of [depending on] municipalities? What if you could make point of use electricity, instead of waiting for the equivalent of Con Edison to build a massive infrastructure and transmission lines? Let's build technologies that scale down to deliver point of use water, point of use power, that don't have to get more granular than the village...
...Surprisingly, there is no systematic collection of data on these encounters: no official figures on animal deaths, crashes caused, or associated costs. And unlike in the U.S. and Canada, where such research abounds, there are few preventive measures in place. Con-sequently, Australians hit animals at five or six times the rate of their North American cousins...
...Called, oddly enough, Crystal Caves, it holds some 600 crystals and fossils, many of which the Dutch-born 69-year-old gathered on expeditions to Mexico and Brazil. His obsession has brought its share of trouble. He's had life-threatening encounters with con men in silver mines-one tried to throw him down a shaft, he says. And not long ago, he was robbed. It's little consolation to Boissevain that the burglars evidently mistook his fake diamonds for the real thing. "They mustn't be very smart," he says mournfully...