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...continued domestic protection. Japan already has more infrastructure than it needs (its "bridges to nowhere" have been made famous by frequent ridicule in the local press) and government debt handily exceeds GDP?two good indicators that the returns on those Keynesian stimuli are diminishing. But like the laboratory pigeon that keeps hitting the lever even though the reward is no longer coming, Japan's government can't stop banging away with its favorite but increasingly useless palliatives: public spending and fiscal stimulus...
...adds that RUS leaders understand their role as “one size fits all” campus feminists. “Being pigeon-holed means that we can lobby from a political perspective,” Rosenberg says...
...finest dining rooms in Moscow is at Kumir, where the decor is Manila Hyatt 1984 but the traditional French fare is superb. A meal for two--succulent pigeon de Sologne, excellent fish and a youngish Chateauneuf-du-Pape--costs north of $300. East-West fusion is represented by the fashionable Uley, which serves rack of lamb and Chilean sea bass, but a mere pot of green tea there will set you back $20. Another chic place is Syr (Russian for cheese), whose decor suggests the inside of a Swiss cheese and which in spite of that has very good Italian...
...hard to know where to begin. There are 200,000 species of organisms (excluding bacteria and protozoa) in the U.S., and at least 7,000 of them were introduced artificially. The coyote didn't start here, nor did the hog, the sparrow, the starling, the rat or the pigeon. And though some alien species--such as horses, cattle and sheep--are important parts of our culture and commerce, many are pests. "Introduced species are one of the principal causes of endangerment for half of endangered species," says Daniel Simberloff, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University...
...Pigeons don't rank very high in the avian pecking order. In most places they are thought of only as statue-soiling, vermin-carrying rats with wings. But India's eastern state of Orissa holds the urban nuisances in greater esteem. Since the end of World War II, the Orissa police department has employed some 600 trained pigeons as official messengers. Capable of ferrying vital letters at up to 80 km/h to remote police outposts, the stalwart birds proved more reliable than the region's hopelessly erratic telephone network, especially during cyclone season when high winds frequently downed lines...