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...Protector for the Amazon...
...Alexander's brother Nicholas I who took over northern Armenia from Persia in 1828, then invaded the Balkans to make the Turks recognize him as the protector of all Christians. The British and French joined in resisting that demand in the bloody stalemate of the Crimean War (1853-56). Resisted in the West, the succeeding Czar Alexander II looked east. He was repeatedly urged in this direction by Prussia's Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. "Russia has nothing to do in the West," Bismarck once declared. "There she can only catch nihilism and other diseases. Her mission is in Asia. There...
...supporter and protector of Mikhail Gorbachev's policies...
...tree in your living room is a dirty trick. But some enterprising Coloradans are striking back at would-be tree snatchers with a pungent recipe: fox urine, a drop or two of skunk essence and glandular extracts from cats, ferrets or muskrats. Sprayed on evergreens, the Scrooge Christmas Tree Protector, at $6 per pt., raises a stink to warn off tree rustlers. If a "Scrooged" tree is moved into a heated house, the putrid perfume gets really intense. How long before the scent wears off? Says Scrooge creator Major Boddicker: "For sure, by spring it'll be gone...
...connections it makes with primal emotions. We form an instant attachment to a near helpless creature whose mother is killed by falling rocks. Nor can we entirely avoid anthropomorphizing the cub's attempts to survive on his own or to attach himself to a full-grown male as a protector-mentor. He is such a vulnerable little guy, infinitely curious and dangerously, comically distractible -- whether by a passing butterfly or the moon's reflection in a pond...