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...vintners can look upon something like PD as just one more hazard of the business. "What the hell," says Jack Cakebread of Napa's prizewinning Cakebread Cellars. "Agriculture has always been that way. But it's a bummer. I just planted 350 prune trees that host the wasps that prey on the sharpshooter." He pauses to sip from a glass of his 1991 reserve Chardonnay and laughs. "Now if I can just figure out how to make prune wine...
...wolf he hits whole driving on a snowy night in Vermont. He doesn't think anything about it until his senses become more attuned; he can hear people whispering in other parts of his office building and has a zoom sort of vision which hones in on his "prey." Enter spoiled rich girl whose rebellious life has annoyed her publishing magnate father; falling in love with her father's newly-fired employee and soon-to-be arch enemy would be the ultimate in rebellion. There you have it: "Wolf" is one cliched plot turn after another. We've seen...
...goal of many a modern mystery writer to merge sadism with sociology. If you unleash a serial killer to prey on the young and vulnerable, you'd better add something -- a sermon about society's ills, keen human insight -- so that your movie (The Silence of the Lambs), novel (The Alienist) or TV series doesn't appear irredeemably sordid. If it is done right, author and audience can enjoy the best of both worlds: luridness without guilt...
What Kirshner didn't realize, however, was thathe had fallen prey to his colleagues' practicaljoke...
...species have coexisted for hundreds of thousands of years. Up until now, the big cat has always been extraordinarily adaptable and resilient. "All a tiger needs," says Schaller, "is a little bit of cover, some water and some prey." But the tiger has finally run afoul of mankind, an evolutionary classmate that has proved to be an even more resourceful killer. "What will it say about the human race if we let the tiger go extinct?" asks TRAFFIC's Ashok Kumar. "What can we save? Can we save ourselves...