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...raid on Rick Arritola's mink farm in Mount Angel, Ore., was carried out with military precision. Working under cover of darkness, a small group of antifur activists cut through a wire-mesh fence, pepper-sprayed a watchdog, bypassed an alarm system, opened cages and set free as many as 10,000 scurrying animals, most of them destined to be made into sleek, high-priced fur coats. It was a daring act of ecovandalism, perhaps the largest illegal animal release in U.S. history...
...feel like we don't belong in our own home," he says. Which seems fine by those whites in Bridgeport whose greatest fear is encroachment from the Stateway projects, part of a stretch of high-rise ghettos on Chicago's South Side where the porches are caged in steel mesh, 70% of the residents are under the age of 17, and, in the words of Sarah Johnson, a 19-year-old mother, "You just keep the little kids inside the house and pray...
...heart of this debate is the question of how McCaffrey's views mesh with Zinberg...
...methodone, prozac and morphine, have declared that marijuana can be the best medicine for diseases such as cancer. We trust them more than our self-interested representatives. The second option is fine, but leaves hypocrisy in the laws. The third option is best, within current federal policy, and would mesh the objectives of Washington, D.C. with those of Sacramento and Phoenix...
...cable companies, by contrast, have a lot to learn. @Home's launch was delayed for months as it struggled to find a way to mesh its high-bandwidth system with the rest of the Internet, which is like an old mansion filled with narrow, twisty corridors and data-clogging culs-de-sac. One @Home innovation is to store data from frequently visited sites in giant computer files called caches--a solution that may not work if those sites change too quickly...