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Complaint No. 2 is the beaver's maniacal devotion to felling trees, which provide it with food and building material. An adult can gnaw through a tree six inches in diameter in 15 minutes. In the Southeast, beavers cause millions of dollars of damage to timber forests every year. In 1999 a squad of bucktoothed renegades in Washington started toppling cherry trees along the Tidal Basin, putting at risk the annual Cherry Blossom Festival. (When the National Park Service relocated the colony to an undisclosed location, then Idaho Congresswoman Helen Chenoweth, a die-hard foe of reintroducing the wolf...
...with an ultra-nationalist Sinhalese group in the next elections. Those elections could be held at any time: constitutionally, the President has almost arbitrary power to dismiss the Prime Minister and dissolve Parliament. While Wickremesinghe is credited with bringing about peace, scandals featuring politicians linked to his party could gnaw at his already slender parliamentary majority in new elections. Mahinda Rajapakse, a prominent opposition politician and close ally of the President, insists that his own party will not stop peace negotiations if it comes to power: "We will keep talking with the LTTE, but on different terms." Many observers, though...
...from male privilege that views everything as being made out of ideas, out of abstractions. It’s the same standpoint that believes women shouldn’t vote and that lambs don’t have feelings or ribs—just racks for someone else to gnaw...
...vague warnings of the past week gnaw at public morale because they don't offer much help in preparation of defenses against attacks, but do spread panic - which, of course, is a large part of the terrorists' intention. From al-Qaeda's point of view, the warnings are the ultimate freebie. After all, terrorism is not warfare in the conventional sense, where the object is to project power in order to destroy an enemy's military capability. Terrorism is more in the nature of violence-as-propaganda, using spectacular attacks to terrorize an enemy's support base as well...
...slaughtered every year in a variety of ugly ways. Snaring is one of them, a practice banned in some European countries - but not in Britain. Snares are supposed to be checked within a limit of 12 hours, by which time foxes, half crazed with fear, have been known to gnaw off a trapped limb. In turn, shooting often results in wounding, after which death can be slow and agonizing - surely no kinder than the quick end inflicted by other animals, which is after all the way most prey die in the wild. Even the government-authorized Burns Report published...