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...Chinese, who cannot resist touching it. "I was a walking talking talisman," he writes. This, plus his status as a gweilo ("ghostly man," or Caucasian), allows him to walk undeterred into Hong Kong's brothels and opium dens to befriend coolies, Triad gangsters and the real-life model for Hiroshima Joe. Perhaps Booth's biggest coup is talking his way into Kowloon Walled City, a notorious no-go area of vice, violence and opium dens. Afterward, his guide, a young Triad member named Lau, gestures toward a pig being slaughtered in a nearby butcher shop. "Blood sprayed from its neck...
...What the quantity of megapixels (each one equals 1 million pixels) does determine is how big you should make your prints. For most consumers, a bottom-of-the-line, 2-megapixel model is just fine for producing great 4-in. by 6-in. prints. Opt for 3 to 4 megapixels if you want to print 8-by-10s. You need the newer 5- or 8-megapixel models only if you want to create poster-size prints or plan to crop and zoom in your pictures on your computer before you print them...
...creative approval remains with the network, even in the case of a plot line involving the teenage daughter's dilemma over whether to have an abortion, an issue more sensitive than sponsors might be comfortable with. "Time will tell," says media consultant Erwin Ephron. "But what this new MindShare model underscores is that people are willing to do things they haven't been willing to do in the past." It may be a matter of survival...
...convinced that the only way to forestall this disaster is to use new strategies that go beyond setting up sanctuaries. Perilous though it may sound, these strategies involve allowing lions, tigers and other big cats to live--or at least pass--among us. Scientists are moving toward a new model of mixed landscapes in which big cats would move from core protected areas through land shared with humans--tea plantations in India, ranchland in Laikipia or, in the case of the cougar (a.k.a. mountain lion), suburban parks in California--giving them more space to hunt and disperse their genes...
...paper published in the June issue of Conservation Biology, Dinerstein and his colleagues describe how they used a computer model to identify gaps larger than 3 km in tiger-friendly habitats and work out ways to bridge them. The Terai Arc program gives local people incentives to plant trees or tall thatch grass, which they can harvest and which tigers can use as cover. As forests and grasslands recover, deer, wild pigs and other tiger prey return. "Big cats can handle a modest amount of disturbance," observes WCS's Ginsberg, "but what they really need is cat food...