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...land of ignorance, the mendacious will flourish. Democracy's natural selection has left the realm of American politics a suitable habitat only for prevaricators, causists, and scoundrels. Now more than ever democracy is, as H.L. Mencken put it, "the art of running the zoo from the monkey cage...
...fickle muse; anyone can lose the knack. But Jackson lost touch. Not as a performer -- his falsetto and his footwork still dazzle -- but with his audience. His career went stratospheric, and he went extraterrestrial. He seemed like one of the exotic animals he keeps in his backyard habitat. For some imaginary Madame Tussaud's, he transformed himself into his own waxed, blanched figure...
Much of Wilson's expertise derives from his award-winning studies of life on islands where the number of species increases or decreases with the size of habitat. This finding is less obvious than it sounds and has big consequences for large landmasses where biological diversity is rapidly losing out to development and pollution. Wilson estimates that 10,000 species are destroyed each year, a rate that is increasing as the world's population grows toward 10 billion people by the middle of the next century...
...Even though a majority of Westerners favor the return of wolves, formidable opposition comes from local ranchers and hunting outfitters who fear that the predators will kill livestock and deplete game and that tight restrictions will be placed on land use as a way of protecting the animal's habitat. The ranchers see the wolf as their own version of the spotted...
Weber attributed the declining wolf population in the U.S. to the practices of ranchers, not loss of habitat or lack of food...