Word: mountained
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...every gourmet will be thrilled by Bourre's contention that the best food for brains is, well, brains. Liver, kidneys and sweetbreads are also rich in mind-building and protein-developing fatty acids, as are Rocky Mountain oysters (a.k.a. bull testicles) -- "for enlightened connoisseurs," the author smoothly adds. But one puzzle Bourre leaves unsolved: If eating well equates with thinking well, how come chefs and restaurant critics aren't the smartest folks around...
...SEVERAL HUNDRED REBEL INSURGENTS SUDDENLY decide to do battle in a wildlife preserve filled with apes, is this guerrilla warfare or gorilla warfare? That's a tough question now that Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park, home to half the world's surviving population of African mountain gorillas (large, hairy herbivores) has been overrun by guerrillas (somewhat smaller omnivores in camouflage with machine guns...
...snow and thence to death. Ramiz Bezdrob, a 66-year-old house painter, succumbed on the night of Feb. 27 trying to bring in food for his wife and five children. Four days later, other trekkers carried his emaciated body, his nostrils still plugged with ice, off the mountain on a primitive bier of branches. At least 50 people have frozen to death along the 26-mile route. Some of their bodies and those of fallen pack ponies are visible along the eerie moonlit trail; spring will reveal the rest...
...their city. Intensive shelling has left few roofs and windows intact. Rockets still regularly slam into the streets, but Gorazde's citizens are holding firm. They hope that help is coming. But so far, the C-130 transport planes droning over Gorazde have been destined for others. "The mountain trail can satisfy only 5% of our needs," says Gorazde Mayor Hadzo Efendic. And the airdrop? "The world has attached much pomp to that," he says...
...estimated 45% of ranchers using federal lands have fewer than 100 cattle. Babbitt's idea: a two-tier fee structure that charges the small rancher less and offers a credit to those who improve the land. In May he will hold hearings on the issue throughout the Rocky Mountain region...