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Highlight Reel:1. From Beef, on the industrialization of cattle: "Cows are animals, and we used to treat them as such. We exploited them alive and dead, but we left them in enough peace so that they could fulfill their life's purpose, which was to stand in a pasture and chew. By yanking them from their habitat, breeding them to physiological extremes, and pushing them through an industrial process as if they were identical to Model Ts...we came to think of them merely as milk wells to be tapped and burgers to be neatly wrapped in polyurethane...
...take Arnold Schwarzenegger seriously as a hero of the environment, when you show him surrounded by a collection of dead, stuffed animals? Perhaps they all died from carbon emissions, which is why he has become so passionate about it. Lynn Moss, FISH HOEK, SOUTH AFRICA...
...government-backed militia leader known as "the colonel of colonels." Ali Muhammad Ali Abd Al Rahman - a.k.a. Ali Kushayb - was high in the pantheon of the Janjaweed militia when a warrant was finally issued for his arrest in February 2007. Investigators said he led raids that left hundreds dead and countless homes destroyed. According to one witness, Ali Kushayb once inspected a line of naked women just before they were raped by his men. There were critical grumblings that the Sudanese government was coddling him: Ali Kushayb had been detained before but had been released for lack of evidence...
...Lately that pulse has been beating stronger for Obama. In recent weeks McCain has fallen behind his Democratic rival in Florida by as many as 8 points in some polls, though others still show the race a virtual dead heat. The nation's financial crisis is of course a factor: Florida is getting waylaid by home foreclosures at a rate few other states can match, and business owners like Geyer and her husband are having to undertake painful employee layoffs to stay afloat. Though Crist insists he's still enthusiastic about McCain's candidacy, he said last week that...
...Just a few minutes before we hit the checkpoint, Ali had received a phone call from a friend. A British woman, Gayle Williams, had been shot dead in Kabul that morning while walking to work at a Christian charity helping the handicapped. Her assassins were two men on a motorbike, whose bullets hit her in the neck, chest and thigh. Later that afternoon, Ali spoke with Zaibullah Mujahid, the Taliban spokesman, who claimed responsibility: "It was our mujahedin who killed [this] woman who was inviting Afghans to Christianity. She was under suspicion, so we investigated, and after our investigation...