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...idea that rugby occupies the gentlemanly high ground of sport, that there is more honor in it than in football or cricket because players don't talk back to referees and have a few pints together afterwards, that's been exposed as the fallacy it always was," wrote Oliver Holt in Wednesday's Daily Mirror newspaper. Still, rugby's troubling evolution may yet be halted - as long as the sport and its players respond to the bloodgate scandal with remedial action, and refuse to simply regard it as a distraction they can forget when the controversy blows over...
...become sausage or bacon that will sell cheap, feeding an American addiction to meat that has contributed to an obesity epidemic currently afflicting more than two-thirds of the population. And when the rains come, the excess fertilizer that coaxed so much corn from the ground will be washed into the Mississippi River and down into the Gulf of Mexico, where it will help kill fish for miles and miles around. That's the state of your bacon - circa 2009. (See TIME's photo-essay "From Farm to Fork...
...then Bill Niman's seaside ranch in Bolinas, Calif., an hour north of San Francisco, must be heaven. The property's cliffside view over the Pacific Ocean is worth millions, but the black Angus cattle that Niman and his wife Nicolette Hahn Niman raise keep their eyes on the ground, chewing contentedly on the pasture. Grass - and a trail of hay that Niman spreads from his truck periodically - is all the animals will eat during the nearly three years they'll spend on the ranch. That all-natural, noncorn diet - along with the intensive, individual care that the Nimans provide...
...Thursday, the Air Force Association daily newsletter called Petraeus' remarks "beyond outrageous" and said they "belittled the contributions of the Air Force to the joint force." The association, a non-profit educational group that supports the service, said the comment is "symptomatic of the long-held belief of many ground commanders that airpower is no longer, if it ever was, relevant." A Petraeus spokesman didn't return calls seeking comment...
...students arrived on campus last September, classes, organizations, clubs and societies alike seemed to hit the ground running—that is, all except for the Undergraduate Council, whose flawed election schedule leaves students virtually without representation during the summer and the first month back in Cambridge. Instead of the president and vice president shouldering the burden alone—leading to logistical difficulties and stalling progress on ongoing projects—the UC should continue to meet with the same representatives as the year before, until elections determine a changing of the guard in October...