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...Worst hit - so far - is Britain, where the stench of burning hair, hide and flesh of slaughtered animals casts gloom across the countryside. By week's end at least 250,000 animals had been destroyed, and that was only the beginning. Agriculture Minister Nick Brown announced plans for the "pre-emptive" killing of every pig and sheep within 3 km of any infected farm in Cumbria and southwest Scotland. By some accounts, the massive slaughter order could doom more than a million animals. Officials even considered calling in army sharpshooters to gun down sheep - including newborn lambs and heavily pregnant...
...pews pace, and three candles glow calmly in the corner. He kneels in the middle of the room. Ignoring him, the dominatrix works at a table laying out a fan, a piece of possum fur, a prickly teaser made of yarn, a hemp rope, a deerskin flogger and kangaroo-hide cat-o'-nine-tails. Finished with her preparations, the mistress turns, walks over to the submissive and grabs the skin at the back of his neck, as a mama cat might lift a kitten. "Stand for me," she commands...
...store window, set along an outdoor escalator that snakes up Hong Kong's busy Central district, turns heads all day long as people crane to get a better look at the riding crops and kangaroo-hide whips on display. If they looked closer, they would notice an intriguing sign in the window: "Play Rooms Available." For $115 an hour, customers can rent one of two dungeons to indulge any of their bondage, dominance and sadomasochism (BDSM) proclivities. "People come from Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Australia, China - all over the world," says Decima, the store's 54-year-old British owner...
Decima's dungeons are deliberately dark and creepy, but she runs her business in a clean, illuminated manner. "I bought the store and decided to build a community. I wanted it bright and open with nothing to hide." Composed and articulate, Decima sits with the rigid posture of a school-mistress, a remnant of her last job as a high-school drama teacher. Decima is, of course, a nom de guerre: she got into BDSM with her husband and, in her personal time, likes to be both dominant and submissive. But Decima will only be tied up by her spouse...
that extends from start to finish. Perhaps hoping that fuzzy guitars will hide...