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...Xiang. Then there's the problem that, with the exception of ungulates like deer, animals raised in captivity are rarely able to adjust to the rigors of the wild. Efforts to reintroduce orangutans into Indonesia's fast-disappearing forests have met with scant success, for example. Even Keiko the killer whale (the inspiration for the Free Willy movies) ended up in a Norwegian harbor, cadging food from fishermen and tourists. Says Jim Harkness, former head of the WWF in China: "Reintroduction is a heroic measure, costly and high risk. It should be a last resort that is attempted only when...
...narrator of Platoon. "This ain't your place at all." It is, though, and that is the rite-of-passage tragedy the film describes. For Chris is torn between the conflicting charismata of two sergeants: Elias (Willem Dafoe), a natural jungle fighter, and Barnes (Tom Berenger), a pure-blooded killer. Both men have a nice sense of their power?over themselves, their men and the enemy. Each hates the other, and one of them, Barnes, is dangerously mad. Their examples, and Chris' rage, will forge the young soldier into a state-of-the-art Stone Age murder machine. He will...
...multicultural livability, ranked worldwide as a top travel destination and is preparing to host the 2010 Winter Olympics. But lately a grim pall has blanketed the western Canadian city of 2.2 million, for reasons far worse than the freak winter storms. The harrowing details of a grotesque serial killer case are bringing to the surface the city's seamy underworld, usually confined to the squalid 10-block open drug and sex market known as the Downtown Eastside...
...wants Turkey to abolish that law, Article 301, which is used by nationalist prosecutors and lawyers to charge writers and journalists with "insulting Turkishness." At Dink's funeral today, many in the procession carried posters that read "301 is the real killer." "His murder has started some soul-searching," says Hakan Altinay, director of the Open Society Institute in Turkey. "Turks need to look at themselves and ask how they could have bred the xenophobia and paranoia that would lead a kid to do this. Everyone has some degree of responsibility here...
...time he is alleged to have had Raymond McCord, Jr., murdered, the report says, police had information pointing to Haddock as an accomplished killer, extortionist and drug dealer. In spite of a catalogue of suspected crimes, ordinary police officers were only able to jail him twice - once after he was caught red-handed attacking a bar, and more recently when one of his victims allegedly ignored death threats to testify against him. "He had a license to kill," says McCord. "And it wasn't some sort of romantic James Bond episode. The man is a vicious thug...