Word: grazes
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...Babbitt wants grazing fees raised across 16 Western states, which would affect 29,000 ranchers whose cattle and sheep graze on about 280 million federal acres. The current fee, $1.86 per month to graze one cow and her calf, is well below market value. But any raise is tempered by concern for small ranchers. An estimated 45% of ranchers using federal lands have fewer than 100 cattle. Babbitt's idea: a two-tier fee structure that charges the small rancher less and offers a credit to those who improve the land. In May he will hold hearings on the issue...
...ruins thin out at the eastern end of Mogadishu, which the Marines refer to as "Mog," giving way to a surprisingly green plain where donkeys, cattle and camels graze. The Marines are entering territory they have not yet explored. Sitting on top of their vehicles, they point M-16s toward the thorn trees and foot-high shoots of corn on either side of the road. Hot exhaust fumes coat their faces in soot. Each time the convoy approaches a village, Somalis come out to cheer. "It's unbelievable," says Fisher. "You're expecting them to shoot at you, and they...
...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...