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...that should be controlled through state-sanctioned hunting. Others believe they majestically embody nature in an almost spiritual way, and for this group, killing wolves seems one step away from offing Fido. "The big-bad-wolf thinking is not in line with what we understand about wolves and the ecosystem," says Mary Beth Petersen, a Minnesota attorney who e-mailed Millage after seeing a photo of him kneeling with his rifle over the wolf. But by the time hunting season ended on March 31, Millage's kill had led to extended legal protection not for the gray wolf...
...Moreover, the iPad is merely the tangible component of a much larger device, an entire Internet ecosystem that extends out to the horizon in every direction. Other companies simply cannot match Apple's skill in constructing media pipelines for its products. The iPad is launching into the teeth of a storm of competition: there's a tablet shipping this month called (unfortunately) the JooJoo that is physically the iPad's rival, and Sony, Dell, Acer, Asus, Lenovo and (undaunted) Microsoft are all said to have next-gen tablets in the works, to say nothing of the inevitable swarm of Chinese...
...Huffington could create a virtual salon for the left, he could create one for the right. "Most conservatives are individualists," he says. "For years, they've been pummeled by the collectivists who run the American media, Hollywood and Washington. The underground conservative movement that is now awakening is the ecosystem I've designed my sites to tap into...
...International organizations and local activists say this is leading to severe neglect of the environment. In a March 16 report, the U.N. Environment Programme said the Olympic construction sites are causing irreversible damage to the region's ecosystem. Greenpeace Russia followed with a statement a day later, reporting that the Mzymta River valley running between the planned Olympic venues is being polluted with heavy metals and industrial waste, destroying the habitats of the local bear and bird populations. "So far, practically everything that we supposedly agreed to with the government and the contractors has in the best case remained only...
...hamburger joints, taco stands and various other chic, no-frills eateries. Their food supply - the expense accounts of large newspapers and magazines - has withered. And their most invaluable asset - their towering authority - has been leached away by blogs and review websites, leaving them without a place in the new ecosystem. All of which is too bad, because critics like Sokolov ought to be at the very center of it. (See pictures of what the world eats...