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Warthogwash! Michael Hutchins, director of conservation and science for the American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums, says the activists are "unrealistic and biologically naive; they are taking human moral precepts and trying to apply them to animals." That view, he adds, may have some merit when it is focused on domestic and farm creatures and even on the plight of laboratory animals, but it has no place in wildlife conservation. "We're trying to save animals from extinction," he says of the AAZPA, which includes 158 of the nation's best-known, most prestigious and carefully regulated zoos...
...Thailand's King possesses the moral authority to do this because he sits above politics, as if belonging to a different realm. He knows that his role as King is to be a symbol, not a personality, precisely because (unlike a politician) he does not have to hustle and promote himself to win the people's favor. King Bhumibol happens to be hugely admired across Thailand, acclaimed as a musician, painter, patent-holding inventor and, most of all, philanthropist, who constantly goes around his kingdom offering development projects to help his people. But what he really seems to have mastered...
...pressure on European governments to prevent another massive attack on their own soil - and that means coordinating efforts with U.S. intelligence. It may be a bogus choice, but if voters had to decide between letting a suspected terrorist run free, and sending him to a faraway place where a moral principle is violated in the hopes of getting information that might prevent a bombing, that's not much of a contest. This may explain why public reaction to the Marty report has been relatively muted. Despite Spain's prominent role in the report, for example, only one of its national...
...follows him as he wanders a country divided by racism and blasted by atrocity. March could easily have come off as a preachy pill, but Brooks plays him as a paradox--an intellectual buffeted by passion, a man of faith bedeviled by doubt. He is constantly confronted with moral dilemmas that he can only bluff his way through. But he's aptly named: the deeper March sinks into the mire, the more determined he is to keep marching homeward...
...listed key pieces of advice—looking to the long-term, resisting the “hot job,” and maintaining “a moral compass”—and concluded that balance was integral to personal satisfaction...