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...chance, one lamb, and previous experiments showed that the chances of having a healthy lamb were very small. That was the reason why I wasn't there [at the birth]. I was determined that the ewe should not be disturbed by having a lot of people around. These sheep are used to living life on a hill, and until they were brought in for the studies, they probably saw people only six times a year. Being near people could still be a frightening experience for them, so the sensible thing to do was to limit the amount of stress...
...Linklater, though, can be credited with two achievements. For one thing, he has made the first close adaptation of a Dick novel (Blade Runner had many epiphanies, but it bore only a superficial resemblance to the author's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep). For another, he has underlined the similarities of two decades marked by governmental snooping into its citizens' business and brains: the 70s, when the Nixon White House amassed a long Enemies List and used the FBI and its own resources to get dirt on suspected troublemakers, and our own, when anyone's telephone chats and email...
...Highlights of the program: SHEEP DRIVE Heard the one about the farmer, the shepherds and the five dogs herding 60 sheep through the city? London's changed just a bit since the [an error occurred while processing this directive] woolly ones regularly walked the streets to market, so to contrast old and new uses of London's roads, the animals will be driven between Borough and Smithfield markets via the ultramodern Millennium Bridge that spans the Thames. Norman Foster, the bridge's architect, plans to lead the way. PETER ACKROYD'S THAMES On the same bridge - the first...
...showdown showed Cuffaro with a five-point advantage. Orazio Marra, a Palermo taxi driver, will vote for the incumbent, opting for his political experience and reserving judgment on the Mafia ties until the trial is over. "We have other problems to worry about," he said. "Borsellino seems like a sheep surrounded by wolves." Still, few deny the Mafia's unique grip on Sicilian society. Across the region, and stretching up to Rome, the Mafia has long been adept at playing politics - applying both hard and soft tactics. Over the years, gangsters have intermittently gunned down crusading lawmakers, priests and magistrates...
...store Harrods, has 12,140 hectares; the Danish vice chairman of Lego, Kjeld Kirk Christiansen, 20,230 hectares. After the breakdown of Highland clan society in the turbulent years that followed parliamentary union with England in 1707, clan chiefs brutally evicted their tenants, clearing the land for more profitable sheep farming. It was only after the establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999 that ordinary Scots were able to take back control over the way Scottish land was owned and used. Now the Scottish government is offering help to communities that want to buy their land from distant landlords...