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The store, which opened last July, is airy and well lit. The produce section is stocked with fresh mustard greens, popular among blacks with roots in the Deep South. There's also elephant-ear-size fried pork skins, a Mexican-American favorite. The neighborhood has few bakeries, so Farmers Best...
In recent years the Cannes jury has been kinder to American (or, perhaps one could argue, conservative) cinema, having been won over by the likes of sex, lies and videotape, Wild at Heart, Barton Fink (1989-91), Pulp Fiction (1994), Elephant (2003) and Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004). But with Quentin Tarantino...
For years, Susi shared her space at the zoo with another African elephant, a few years her senior, named Alicia. When Alicia died in February 2008, the loss came as a blow, according to the animal-welfare organizations Libera and the Foundation for the Adoption, Sponsorship and Defense of Animals...
Nevertheless, the charges sting. The zoo says it is undertaking temporary measures to improve Susi's living conditions, nearly doubling the space dedicated to elephants and replacing the concrete floors with dirt, which is kinder to elephants' sensitive feet. It has also been actively searching for a new companion for...
So is Susi a pawn in a larger war? Or is she really depressed? "If she's really eating excrement, if she's displaying rocking behavior, that would be abnormal for an adult elephant in the wild," says Dr. Joyce Poole, director of the conservation group Elephant Voices. At the...