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...farm practice of confining sows in 2-ft. by 7-ft. metal pens where they cannot turn around for most of their four to five year breeding life is "especially egregious." Arizona's major newspapers have endorsed Prop 204. And the message was reinforced in a television commercial featuring Maricopa County Sheriff Joseph Arpaio cooking a pork chop while declaring that, nonetheless, "I believe that animals raised for food deserve humane treatment...
Would Frontline's cameras alter the very process it seeks to document? Jury deliberations have been televised before. Frontline did it in 1986, and a decade later CBS News installed a remote camera in the jury rooms of Maricopa County, Ariz., to document how juries reached verdicts in four criminal trials. "We talked to jurors months after their experience to ask what impact the camera had," says David Schneider, a producer at CBS when the show aired. "They said that they forgot about the camera...
...VISTAS Out by the Estrella Mountains, guests can can catch glimpses of wild horses. Trail rides on tamer beasts are available A GAMBLE Pima and Maricopa tribal leaders hope the joint venture with Sheraton will bring money into their community without relying on slot machines?although a casino is just a short trip away INDULGENCE The 16,260-sq.-meter spa is called Aji, a name derived from a place the Pima considered a sanctuary during battle...
...Wild Horse Pass Resort and Spa outside Phoenix, Arizona. The idea of a hotel designed around a western theme "sounded like a dude ranch," he says. Instead, the marketing manager from San Jose, California, found rooms decorated with authentic baskets and pottery from the native Pima and Maricopa tribes; an upscale spa that offered such Native American-inspired treatments as tashogith, a clarification bath using juniper and cypress; and the Kai restaurant, which features dishes like lobster with fry bread, an Indian staple. Says Stonecipher: "It turned out to be anything but hokey...
...volleyball, racquetball and squash courts, outdoor boccie courts, three swimming pools and kickboxing classes. All the guest rooms are outfitted with sets of 1-kg dumbbells, and power shakes are on the menu. And the Wild Horse itself is the product of a collaboration between the Sheraton and the Maricopas and Pimas. The $125 million resort is located on the Gila River Indian Reservation, wild horses roam freely across the 16-hectare property, and tamed ones are available for riding. The place has no tepees and no powwows, but ribs from saguaros poke through the ceilings of the meeting rooms...