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Game--it's what's for dinner. More and more two-legged carnivores who find themselves either bored with beef or concerned about healthy eating are turning to a herd of exotic meats. How about a medaillon of elk leg? Zebra steak? Or some rabbit saddles and quail satay?
The world's richest man in 1937 was His Exalted Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad, an Indian potentate. TIME featured him on its cover that year, estimating his fortune at $1.4 billion, including "$150,000,000 in jewels [and] $250,000,000 in gold bars." Such fabulous wealth enabled free...
Nancy Rubens, a painter in New York City, never imagined when her son Alex got a "really cool" turtle, Mikey, for his 12th birthday that a dozen years later she would be boiling meat and eggs three times a week to minister to Mikey's osteoporosis. "Her bones were damaged...
Infectious diseases routinely leap from animals to humans, often with devastating effects. AIDS and Ebola originated in apes, Creutzfeldt-Jakob in cattle, West Nile in birds and SARS in a little-known animal called the palm civet. Last year the exotic-pet trade took a 3-lb. Gambian rat from...
As a one-time cable news junkie, I came home for the holidays ready to spend hours delighting the senses with the exotic sights and sounds of CNN, MSNBC, maybe even a little C-SPAN, if I felt wonkish enough. And I wasn’t at all disappointed with...