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...only exacerbated the sense that matters were spiraling out of control. Department of Forestry officials incinerated some civets, boiled others to death and drowned still more in disinfectant. It was as if the Chinese government were offering thousands of sacrificial rodents to ward off the Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse...
...saddle. Jampur spends all his energy tending to a diminishing herd. During the winter, he lives in Uvurkhangai province about 400 kilometers west of the capital. Nearly three-quarters of Uvurkhangai's 113,000 residents are herders. They circumnavigate a wintry land of desolate, hypnotic beauty where a lone horseman or vulture offers a rare burst of color. Few places have been so devastated by the dzud. One provincial official says the area's livestock population plunged from 2.95 million in 1999 to 1.86 million in 2001. Since then, a few hundred thousand more animals have died...
...Time: How skillful a horseman were you when you decided to make this journey? Stewart: I'd ridden once before on a ranch trip in Wyoming. As it went on, I became a lot more accomplished and wanted more-and-more-eager horses. I actually rode up at each new camp in a grand style?galloped up and leapt off my horse?to let them know that I could handle their horses...
...company is famous for defending its trademarks; while Mecca-Cola says its targets are elsewhere, Coke's lawyers might already be seeing red. THE BOURSE All Fall Down Just when you think the apocalypse at Switzerland's largest life insurer, Swiss Life, must be complete, in swoops another horseman. Last week CEO Roland Chlapowski became the second top executive to be ousted in nine months; the next day board chairman Andres Leuenberger resigned. The 145-year-old company's share price has plunged 80% this year, and investors have turned their wrath on the board and management as investigators have...
...people who lived on these lands were measured too. Would the Indians help or hinder the march of progress? That was always the first question in the captains' minds as they rounded a bend in the river and saw smoke, or glimpsed a horseman watching from a bluff. The noble cross-cultural moments came later. Before Clark helped a teenage Sacagawea give birth inside a wintry fort, and before she repaid him a thousand times over by arranging with her Shoshone kinsmen for the expedition's passage over the Rockies, Lewis drew his sword against the Teton Sioux as they...