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...Fur the Whole Family,” arts, Sept...
Perhaps arts columnist Rebecca M. Harrington ’08 was on her way back to Cambridge when PETA members crashed the catwalk at the Burberry and Just Cavalli shows during Milan Fashion Week, to protest these designers’ use of fur...
...Tibetans make pilgrimages to Dharamsala, India, to hear the Dalai Lama's Kalachara teachings. Last year, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader struck an unusually secular note, warning against the exploitation of endangered species. Tibetans are among Asia's largest consumers of tiger pelts and leopard skins. They use the fur to trim their robes, in rituals and as rugs; tiger claws and dried leopard organs are also used in traditional medicine, and Tibetans dominate the illicit trade in animal parts between India and China. The Dalai Lama's word traveled fast. Buddhists in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, burned their pelts...
...culture shock when they re-enter the United States. They find it materialistic and complain about the sheer surplus of caramel macchiatos. This is not what happened to me when I returned from Bella Italia. If I did experience any culture shock, it was in the jarring lack of fur in the already borderline-gauche clothing worn by denizens of Cambridge. Fur is everywhere in this year’s designer collections. It decorates the outside of pockets and the tops of handbags. It shows up on the lining and the cuffs of pretty much every coat that...
...this effort, the charismatic sea otter may be its own best friend. Marine mammal experts aren't always as sentimental about the sharp-toothed creatures as the public is--one expert referred to otters eating shellfish on their tummies as "buzz saws in a fur coat"--but no one doubts the value of the "aww" factor. "When you've been bitten by one, you don't think they're so cute," says Michelle Staedler, the Monterey Aquarium's sea otter research coordinator, "but then you look, and they're a big ball of fluff." [This article contains a complex diagram...