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Thompson has devoted a lot of time to studying why previous GOP hopefuls imploded. He spent part of last week in his Washington-area office, meeting with veteran campaigners while his aides figured out how to find office space, hire advance men and ride herd on financiers. By jumping into the race in early July (and signaling his intentions widely now), Thompson hopes to slow the fund raising of his embattled friend John McCain...
...smackdown took place at an ordinary watering hole where a small herd of cape buffalo were drinking and idling, wandering dangerously close to a pack of concealed lions that either did not smell very lion-like or, more probably, were crouching deliberately upwind. On the other side of the hole, six tourists and a guide watched in a parked range vehicle. The lions waited until the buffalo got close enough and then pounced, seizing the baby and scattering the adults. That's usually a game-ender for a baby buffalo, but things got even worse for this...
...These kinds of animals collaborate all the time," says the University of Pennsylvania's Sue McDonnell, also an animal behaviorist and vet. "The larger herd is broken down into smaller harems, with a domanant male and several females and their babies. If a youngster is threatened, both the harem males and bachelor males-which usually fight with one another-will get together to try to rescue it." You don't even have to travel to Africa to see such herbivorous first-responders at work. McDonnell specializes in studying wild horses and has occasionally seen the rough-sometimes lethal-treatment feral...
...after the cameras stopped rolling. Certainly the right bite to the neck would have caused the baby to bleed out fast-which did not appear to happen-and the right hold on its hind legs would have broken them, making it impossible for him to trot back to the herd as he did. Buffalo hide is tough, and perhaps this baby was even tougher and scrappier than most-or perhaps the crocs and lions simply had their B-teams out that day. Whatever the answer, one of the best thing about the alternate-reality, user-driven world...
...Every now and then nature throws up these sorts of things.' RUSSELL SNELL, New Zealand biotech researcher, whose company is breeding cows that give skimmed milk. The herd descends from a single Friesian cow named Marge, which scientists discovered had a rare gene mutation for low-fat, Omega 3-rich milk while testing New Zealand dairy cows...