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Every November, Wisconsin ceases to be a red state or a blue state and instead becomes a blaze orange one. That is the color donned by hunters, 650,000 of whom bought licenses to participate in the state's rifle-deer-hunting season, which begins the Saturday before Thanksgiving. As much as that holiday and Christmas, the nine-day season is a time when families and friends gather. In the woods, men, women and children all join in, and a child's first excursion is often viewed as a rite nearly as solemn as First Communion. But this year...
...Island Rule is almost certainly the reason Stegodon dwindled to the size of a water buffalo on Flores. But while examples of such shrinkage had been found in elephants, hippos and deer, it was unheard of in higher primates. "It shows that hominids are following the same evolutionary and ecological rules as other mammals," says paleontologist Tim White of the University of California, Berkeley. "Wallace and Darwin would have been delighted...
Cornell’s troupe depicted the influence of the West on Eastern culture through a dance story about hunters stalking deer through the forest. The Cornell dancers donned berets and shifted their music from Indian song to the sounds of the Black Eyed Peas and Janet Jackson, integrating Western style with their traditional forms as the spirits of the story’s deer rose up with increased vitality after the hunters’ ravage...
...Likewise, two rooms from the early 20th century by a master revivalist named Tanryo Murata demonstrate the frame-breaking creativity possible when an artist is allowed to use entire sets of rooms as his canvas. In one room, Murata painted scenes from a deer hunt?a common Kamakura-period pastime that frequently took place at the foot of Mount Fuji?in the finely detailed and colorful Yamato-e style, which emphasizes the horses' musculature and bowmen's straining faces. But look through a doorway created by parting two screens in the hunting room and the viewer sees that the next...
...China. Grasse also imports hundreds of exotic ingredients, such as Indian sandalwood and Madagascar patchouli leaf. These days, however, synthetics often mimic traditional perfume ingredients like ambergris (a substance found in a sperm whale's intestines) and musk (taken from a gland near the foreskin of a Himalayan deer...