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...beatific,” or “God-like,” or “God.” They replenish my table with roasted meats and fine wine. Then, they create a feudal system in which I deny all capitalist bourgeois ascendancy and reinstall the fin de siècle leisure class. Your parents love you, assumedly. After all, you go to Harvard. When they remind others of your greatness, it is an act of love. By denying them, you’re displaying winner’s or victor’s guilt. You?...
...bass fishing appears on two television networks. ESPN, which spent $40 million to buy the Bassmaster Tour, and Fox, which sponsors the FLW, are going fin to fin for supremacy...
...eating exotic animals and using them for ancient medicines are practices deeply rooted in Chinese culture. There have been fleeting signs of change. In June, the soon-to-open Hong Kong Disneyland took shark's fin soup off the menu following public protests over the damage that widespread consumption of the popular Chinese dish was doing to global shark populations. During the 2003 SARS crisis, wildlife activists dared to hope?briefly?that real change was possible. Scientists concluded that SARS had passed from wild civet cats to humans, most likely because the civets are a popular winter dish in China...
...BASKING SHARK, the second largest shark in the ocean, is endangered because its fins are a popular ingredient in shark's fin soup, which can fetch as much as $100 a bowl in Hong Kong...
...senador dem?crata Ken Salazar de Colorado) y porque representa a La Florida con su clave poder electoral, Mart?nez es quiz?s el legislador hispano m?s importante del pa?s. Cuando fue electo el pasado oto?o, Mart?nez era considerado poco m?s que un lacayo del presidente George W. Bush. Pero Mart?nez puso fin a esos rumores cuando esta primavera pidi? el cierre de la controversial prisi?n en Guant?namo y declar? que el gobierno estaba ignorando a Am?rica Latina...