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...Mongolia's Gobi Desert, it basically offers a glimpse into the hard, warm lives of the region's nomadic herders. But like the old, artlessly arranged documentaries of Robert Flaherty, it also tells a little story, about a camel who rejects her newborn calf--possibly because its fur is white. The family that owns it lives in patient harmony with the creatures and environment, but nothing within the family's humble power effects a reconciliation between the beasts. So the family evokes a traditional remedy--ages old--and sure enough, as a two-string violinist plays, the mother camel allows...
...protesters were arrested while staging a near-naked pillow fight and shouting “Love in, Fur Out” to draw attention to their campaign against the mistreatment of animals...
...General Electric, which contaminated 40 miles of the Hudson River with cancer-causing PCBs, has hired high-profile attorney Laurence Tribe to convince federal courts that the Superfund law is unconstitutional. And in New Jersey, where the rabbits frolicking around the Chemical Insecticide Corp. plant once grew green-tinged fur, cleanup funds were restored only after locals sent green plush bunnies to members of Congress...
...During the run of your original "Yummy Fur" series you had an occasional back-up feature where you adapted the Gospels. Will that ever be completed...
...doctors have begun to give parents some surprising advice about preventing allergies and asthma in children: let them cuddle up to family pets during the first year of life. The idea, supported by several studies, is to expose the infants to the microbes that make their home in animal fur. That would prime the baby's immune system, still under construction, to recognize common allergens as harmless and not to mount the sneezing, wheezing and red-eyed response...