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...What did you think of the recent tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo? I was obsessed with that story. There was a lot of great coverage of that, but one idea, which was very anthropomorphic, was that [the victims] made the tiger mad and that's why the tiger jumped. A tiger is really not likely to jump just because it's mad. They did something to make that tiger think they were prey. So they either got on the fence, or jumped over the fence, or did something with their behavior to make that tiger think "dinner...
...billion equity contribution to the bid, business author Neil Chenoweth says, "For Lachlan to be doing what he's doing, family money has to be involved." Then again, Chenoweth concedes that it's unclear how much Murdoch's main backer, SPO Partners, a private investment firm based in San Francisco, is putting up. Lachlan is adamant: "This is completely my own transaction," he told reporters in January. Asked about the CMH bid last month, Rupert Murdoch said, "Not only are we [News Corp.] not involved, I'm pretty ignorant about...
...Number of successful suicide jumps off San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge since 1937. Although opponents worry that a barrier would mar the bridge's appearance, the city is considering various safety options, including a higher fence or netting to catch jumpers...
...four-decade-old civil war over its deep social inequalities, argues that it wouldn't have had to violate Ecuador's border if Correa, like Chavez, hadn't been harboring FARC militants in his territory. The FARC "is a drug cartel that kills civilians," Colombian Vice President Francisco Santos said in a TIME interview last month. "It's like al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hizballah - where are we supposed to draw the line for our security...
...from his station in Iraq and, Gravel says, was thrown in the brig for refusing to continue fighting until the Gravel campaign got him a lawyer. Israel usually makes up the entirety of his entourage. "You can pay someone $5,000 to get them rubbed out in South San Francisco," Gravel explains...