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...visiting a war-torn place," says Shashi Bhushan, an activist for the People's Union for Civil Liberties. The elephants are agitated because the lack of food in their own natural habitats has forced them to stray into human villages; when the locals resist, the elephants get mad. Meanwhile, the Indian government seems capable of little more than punning. "The problem is elephantine and there is no shortcut solution," says elephant-affairs official H.W. Pandey. A few days in a tree might change his tune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking to the Treetops | 6/9/2003 | See Source »

...more twists than most Super Ape (1976) Arguably Perry's finest hour, this album carries dub over the line to a white prog-rock audience. Having earlier stripped reggae back to its basics, Perry piles on layers of vocals and effects Black Ark Experryments (1995) Perry raps mayhem and madness (Poop Song?) into the electro-dub mixing of London's Mad Professor, his touring partner and friend of the past few years Arkology (1997) A superb, three-CD review of Perry's Black Ark output in the '70's: A-grade classics, dub versions and outtakes of his own band...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's All Up To Scratch! | 6/8/2003 | See Source »

...Russians are mad at Harvard again. But this time, instead of faculty bungling their economy, it’s an alum pilfering their bells. In 1930, Charles Crane bought 18 bells from the St. Danilov Monastery to save them from the Soviet authorities, who wanted to melt them down, and donated them to Harvard. But now the rebuilt monastery wants them back by March...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: The Year in Review | 6/5/2003 | See Source »

...Canadians weren't battered enough by microbial menaces after dealing with SARS, along comes mad cow. A routine inspection of a slaughtered Black Angus in Alberta revealed it had been infected with the disease. Inspectors have quarantined 16 sites across Canada as they explore how the cow got sick. Canada's beef industry is reeling--but it could get worse. Officials are checking whether cows on at least three farms in British Columbia may have had access to chicken feed that contained protein from the contaminated cow, thus spreading the disease more widely than thought. --By Alice Park

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plagued Canada | 6/2/2003 | See Source »

...ancient Egyptians were the first to domesticate cats, which they regarded as sacred. Mertz carries on the tradition. In her two-story solarium, dappled with sunlight, it seems as though cats are everywhere, strutting and preening as household gods. "They're all a little mad at me, because yesterday was the day for the vet," confides Mertz. In all, there are five felines: Dorothy, Nefret, Emerson, Ellery and Sethos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Achievers: Mystery Tours | 6/2/2003 | See Source »

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