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...will take steps to ensure it does not happen again,” HUPD spokesperson Steven G. Catalano said in an e-mailed statement. After HUPD investigated the incident, Catalano said they determined that no criminal activity had occurred. Boston media picked up on the story this weekend and local TV station WBZTV attributed the incident to a prank by anthropology students. But regarding the goat remains, HUPD said it currently has “no further details.” Daniel E. Lieberman, an anthropology professor and head tutor of biological anthropology at the College, said...
...expected that most Americans don’t know very much about the world’s nations—after all, nearly two-thirds of U.S. citizens from 18 to 24 years old could not find Iraq on a map in 2006 —it seems that local folks have a particular affinity for the ignorant invocation of Canada in their political discourse...
...been 40 years - almost to the day - since Elkhart, Indiana, had last seen a presidential candidate in the flesh. Its local paper, The Truth, had commemorated the anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy's visit last Friday, wistfully editorializing that it wished one of this year's contenders would come to town and try to recreate the magic of the rally at which 3,000 people had gathered to hear RFK on Main Street...
...butter shortage results from a chain of events. When the country suffered an overproduction of milk in 2006, the government ordered about 1,000 tons of raw milk poured down the drain and dairy cows slaughtered to prop up prices and defend local milk farmers. Dairy prices were then managed to retain their advantage to imported milk and butter, whose prices were inflated by tariffs. (To protect domestic butter, the tax on imported butter went up twice last year. There is a nearly 30% tariff on butter imports...
...amount available for feed for Japan's cows. The drought has also cut back on milk that would have been imported to supplement the Japanese market. Combined with competing demand for milk and milk products from emerging markets in China and Russia, the result is a collapse of the local butter production in Japan...