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...battalion-size forces (325 singers), reason enough for Sony Music to reissue some of the MORMON TABERNACLE CHOIR'S top hits. The five-CD set includes hymns, Civil War songs and American standards. The choir's ringing harmonies and bright tones are perfectly suited to chorales (Sheep May Safely Graze, with its heavenly shifting of voices) or patriotic marches (The Caissons Go Rolling Along, sung with a suitable military fervor). Some show tunes, though, are overly orchestrated and could do without the distracting backup...
...Arazi can repeat his latest performance in this Saturday's Kentucky Derby, where he is the favorite in a field of such impressive challengers as A.P. Indy and Pistols and Roses, the young stallion could earn the right to graze in horse racing's Elysian Fields alongside the greatest track legends of all time. Already the winner of six major-stakes races in France worth $700,000, as well as the $1 million Breeder's Cup Juvenile at Churchill Downs last year, Arazi is fast winning a reputation as the second coming of Secretariat. Says Joe Hirsch, a columnist with...
VERMIN. THE WORD reminds most people of cockroaches scuttling across kitchen floors and rats skulking in dark basement corners. But to Jeremy Rifkin, the environmental movement's most prominent polemicist, vermin are big, brown-eyed ungulates that graze the rolling countryside, chew their cud and moo. In his controversial new book, Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture, Rifkin manages to blame the world's burgeoning population of bovines for a staggering spectrum of ecological ills. In the U.S., he charges, runoff from mammoth feedlots is despoiling streams and underground aquifers. In sub- Saharan Africa, cattle...
...proof that Yellowstone bison are a danger to livestock. The strain of brucellosis found in bison may not be virulent enough to pose a significant risk to domestic cattle. "They're making policy without data," charges biologist and bison researcher Jay Kirkpatrick. Says Pacelle: "If people want to graze cattle on the Yellowstone ecosystem, they need to assume some limited risk...
...patrolled smuggling routes and staged mock intercepts. They scouted the "slots," mountain passes where airborne smugglers fly only feet above the ground to evade radar. "Drug pilots are all a little crazy," she says. "They carry extra fuel bladders, which means they're flying a bomb. At 50 ft., graze a hill and it's all over...