Word: lions
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...real cost. Experts such as Warren Buffett and Alan Greenspan have argued that all publicly traded companies should count stock options as an expense. Yet today among big companies only Boeing and Winn-Dixie do so. Why? The current system is so lucrative for company executives, who reap the lion's share of stock options, that few will make the change unless forced. This was not a big deal a few years ago. But this "free money" led to gigantic options grants in the '90s--and now, by some estimates, the cost to shareholders is double what it was just...
...male lion bit the arm of a 21-year-old zookeeper Sunday at Busch Gardens, severing it at the elbow... Zoo officials said they had not decided what to do with the lion." -The Associated Press...
...Amanda Bourassa was taking her family on a behind-the-scenes tour of the Busch Garden facilities when Max, the 12-year-old lion in question, took her arm off just below the elbow. He was already excited; Bourassa had just fed Max some red meat as part of a training exercise, and the lion may have smelled the meat on Bourassa's latex glove. She was standing behind a safety fence, but apparently wrapped a finger around one of the bars - an encroachment zookeepers are taught to avoid...
...looking at this from the lion's perspective. One day, you're wandering happily around the grasslands, looking for a nice baby buffalo or perhaps a large lizard to snack on, and wham! You're hit by a stun gun, and the next thing you know, you've been stuffed into a cage. Three days later, everyone expects you to act "interesting" for expectant-looking adults and sniveling, balloon-toting kids lined up outside your faux-natural habitat at the local...
...remind you of, with a sharp nip or bark, should you ever forget, and try, say, to dress little Mitzi in a sweater. (If you are the kind of person who makes your dog wear rain boots, I think you should probably reconsider before he gets wind of this lion story...