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...Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), mostly as a result of continued human infiltration of Mother Nature's turf. Carried by a parasitic tick on mice, deer and household pets, the disease has spread to 43 of the 48 contiguous states--although 12 states in the Northeast and northern Midwest still account for 95% of reported cases. (Reported cases, however, may represent only a tenth of the total number of cases, according...
...horns on that one," game farmer Richard Horsley says admiringly, pointing to a large male nyala, one of 10 coarse-haired African antelope waiting to go on the block at the Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife game auction in the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi regional park in northern KwaZulu- Natal. "They've got a nice turn to them and they're spread nice and far, tip to tip. That's a beauty." "Very symmetrical," agrees a friend. I want to show off my animal knowledge, so I break in: "The horns are a good indicator of the animal's health, no?" The men turn...
...Wildlife, which runs some 100 parks in the province and organizes the auction. Some farmers offer tourists game drives and walks, others offer hunting safaris. Some even offer both - though not at the same time. The industry is now worth about $140 million a year, according to the local Northern Game Ranchers' Association. Game animals in southern Africa are traded much the same as any other goods, and the Ezemvelo auction sets the standard for prices every year. Game-park ranchers fly in from as far away as Texas - and even though some, perhaps as many as half...
Waiting for the training to begin, Jo Anna Cartwright, who manages the rural public bus system in northern Arkansas, said she had not yet encountered any terrorists in her job, as far as she knew. "We got a terroristic phone call the other day," she said, "but it turned out it was just the boyfriend of an employee." Her bus drivers pay special attention to a gentleman from Afghanistan who recently married a regular rider, she said. Cartwright had come to the training to learn what else she could...
...animal-gathering chores. "The problem with people who think that God will provide," she remarks tartly, "is that they think God will provide." Cham (Ham)--the most skeptical of the sons and the most sympathetic--is paired with mysterious, icy Ilya, a refugee from a northern land who subjects Noe's religious zeal to intellectual scrutiny. "Only a man's god," she snaps, "would show love for his creation by destroying...