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...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...
...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...
...highest number of television sets per person in the world, yet by that standard of wealth, Harvard is hopelessly poor. Harvard undergraduates must subsist on what they can get over the airwaves or herd into common rooms to watch their favorite shows—or fight with others who are watching something else. But thanks to the entrepreneurial wit and creative zeal of a few students, modernity is politely knocking on our doors. Technological and legal issues have been resolved by this small group of dedicated students and satellite television could soon be accessible in upperclassmen houses through electrical wires...
...utilize Kouchner's humanitarian background. "The Foreign Minister is now partly a protocol position, partly a humanitarian aid and development role," says Jean-Christophe Rufin, an award-winning author, former diplomat and one-time vice president of the M?decins Sans Fronti?res. "You're not going to see Kouchner riding herd on Franco-German relations, but that's not what he's interested in anyway...