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...once-valuable leaders are put out to pasture. In their 1995 book, The Winner-Take-All-Society, economists Philip Cook and Robert Frank point to how “winner-take-all” contests lead to a waste of national talent. The arrival of a new top dog means that the old one, including all of the hard lessons and information learned along the way, is cast aside. CEOs, governors and presidents are all cast out with the bath water as soon as their time expires. This is doubly and triply true when the old leader leaves under less...
...comedy wasn’t the only thing on Meyer’s mind at Harvard, friends say. He was also consumed by a love of gambling—especially betting on dog races...
Americans are taking the notion of dogs' being man's best friend quite literally. In Jon Katz's fine book The New Work of Dogs (Villard), the author explores how in our increasingly fragmented and disconnected society, dogs are often treated as family members and human surrogates. A growing number of people, according to Katz, say they get more support from their dogs than their spouses or parents. The author zooms in on 12 dog-human relationships in Montclair, N.J., a prosperous community with a large canine population. In Montclair, pet-human bonds take on a variety of forms...
...With the recent discovery that SARS may have leapfrogged to humans from exotic delicacies like the civet cat and raccoon dog, Beijing has launched a massive crackdown on the wildlife trade. In the past week, police have combed wet markets in metropolises like Guangzhou and Shanghai, confiscating writhing bags filled with all manner of beast. But eating yewei, or wild-flavor cuisine, is a key element of new China's conspicuous consumption, and it won't be easy to curb the appetites of the nation's voracious businessmen and discerning government officials...
...team of Chinese microbiologists last week confirmed that the civet could indeed produce a unique effect on the human body: it might cause SARS. They've also extracted the virus from a species of wild dog and found antibodies?evidence of an earlier infection?in a Chinese badger. Those results probably confirm the long-dreaded notion that overly close cohabitation of man and animal is brewing up new, fatal plagues. Hong Kong's bird flu of 1997 was just such a creation: a virus harmless in waterfowl that jumped species to infect chickens and then mutated again, killing six people...