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...Tonight, as the clock in the Square shows 2 a.m., a herd of tow trucks descends on Mass. Ave. The city sweeps the streets early in the morning, and anyone who has left their car out overnight faces a tow and a $100 fine. The tow trucks whoosh down the street like giant insects, pausing only briefly to grab a car before vanishing into the night...
Years? No one frets about herd behavior when it's the bulls who have everyone brainwashed--as was the case last year. Who didn't enjoy that historic 86% jump in the NASDAQ? The gain overwhelmed economic fundamentals, though. Fueled by our faith in technology and the riches minted in previous years, mass psychology swung to the greed side, and stocks were viewed as a bargain at any price...
...interrupted by a meteor shower--prefiguring the extinction of the species perhaps 150,000 years later--that brings Aladar and his pals back to a barren mainland and the lad's struggle to assert the values of a new masculine style in a sere landscape where the dino herd is ruled by the cranky and politically incorrect Kron (Samuel E. Wright...
...hardly hope to explode. Consider the fact that the meats in the English language have different names from the animals they come from (pig, pork; deer, venison; cow, beef) because the Norman rulers in England were the ones who got to enjoy meat while the poor peasants could only herd the animals, or at best raise them for dairy products. But that doesn't excuse baseless assumptions. It's always good to analyze the source of one's sense of repulsion: as a meat-eater, is it justifiable that I look down on other meats as unclean...
Being a cowboy in the '90s isn't like the movies. While John Wayne spent more time slinging a gun than looking after actual cows, the student cowboys must guard the herd carefully to prevent it from trampling sensitive ecosystems. They also assist in calf-birthing...