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...size dog. "But they have giant udders," says Novella Carpenter. She should know: she has six goats that together provide a quart of milk a day, which she drinks and uses to make cheese and butter. And when the bleating beauties are not grazing in her 1,000-sq.-ft. yard, they're hanging out on the porch of her second-floor apartment in the middle of Oakland, Calif...
Those enthusiasts may have taken a page from the godmother of goat lovers, Jennie Grant, owner of Brownie and Snowflake, who founded the Goat Justice League two years ago while pushing Seattle to legalize miniature goats. It is now permissible to have three on a 5,000-sq.-ft. lot, and some city departments have hired goats to clear blackberry brambles. "Part of my lobbying effort included bringing fresh chèvre to city-council members' offices," she says...
...Then, on Aug. 1, they made the daunting decision to try to summit Latok II. There had been 25 previous attempts to scale the 23,300-ft. (7,100 m) mountain, all of them unsuccessful. "They were doing the purest kind of climbing," says Alfonso Hernández, a reporter for the Períodico de Aragon, Pérez and Novallón's local newspaper. "No ropes, and totally alone up there...
...pair was at 20,600 ft. (6,300 m) when Pérez fell. Novallón left him bivouacked with food, a gas stove and a sleeping bag, as well as a realistic assessment of how long it might take for help to come. "Oscar knew it would take six or seven days for a rescue team to reach him," says Alfonso Uriel, spokesman for Peña Guara, the Huesca climbing club that has been organizing the effort. "So psychologically, he's prepared. He knows not to give up hope after just a couple of days." (Read "Blind...
...home of Ike Eisenhower was fighting back," Phillip Cosby, a retired Army master sergeant who led the Kansas antiporn brigade, recalls proudly. Then in 2006, the state legislature enacted a law to limit the size of billboards to 40 sq. ft. Only an establishment's name, location, phone number and operating hours could be on the sign. Stores had until July 1 of this year to comply. But days before the deadline, a federal judge in Topeka blocked the law from taking effect until she could consider a challenge brought by Lion's Den. The store said the law placed...