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...about 800,000 cattlemen scattered across the 50 states, and many resent tagging as an expensive and unnecessary government intrusion. Expensive is right; the cost currently runs about $100 per head. Under pressure from cattlemen, the USDA agreed to make tagging voluntary. Currently, only about 10% of the herd is traceable through the USDA's tracking system...
...ritual, but in Dubai you have to do things when they are new. And new is a relative term in a place where there's always a bigger mall being built, boasting even more outrageous tenants. Currently under construction is Dubailand, which in addition to shopping will have a herd of full-size animatronic dinosaurs. (See 10 things to do in Dubai...
...exercise his First Amendment rights. So in the spring of 2002, lower Manhattan was still a blackened gash left by Islamo-Nazis, and suicide bombers were murdering Israeli grandparents and children at their seder tables. The deduction: Harvard should divest from companies that do business with Israel, honked the herd. (Some European geese—may they get bird flu—went farther, banning Israeli academics, even critics of government policy, from journals and meetings.) When President Summers suggested, much more charitably than necessary in my view, that the result, if not the intent, of the divestment petition...
...house backyards that Matt James renovates: drab, walled pits that are, as he says, "more prison yard than courtyard." His budget-conscious solutions treat each garden like an extension of the house, making up for limited space with careful design. You may not appreciate all his choices--say, the herd of statuary cows traipsing through a patio--but even suburbanites can learn from him about handling common problems, especially lack of sunlight. (This is a British show, after...
...MOVIE IS BETTER: Proulx was a realist, not much interested in the glories of mountain landscapes. Director Ang Lee is a romantic, and his realizations of the high country where the cowboys herd sheep and fall in love have a transformative effect on the story. He makes you believe those rough, crude guys might just possibly achieve passion and tenderness in those breathtaking locales...