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...Some of the blame rests on the official policy of the U.S. government, which suppresses the Iraqi casualty count. In an honest revelation of priorities, the U.S. government does, through the National Agricultural Statistics Service, keep meticulous data on the herd sizes and deaths of hogs, pigs, cattle, poultry, sheep, and ewes. A simple search of the Department of Agriculture can find you the number of sheep slaughtered for human consumption in Hawaii in 2002, but a similar search of the Department of “Defense” for the number of humans slaughtered for political consumption in Iraq...
...said that Soifer’s patterns stem from the fact that Harvard grads’ career decisions reflect broader market dynamics. “MBAs are like very well-paid sheep,” Gross said. “They move in herds...
...Researchers at the institute have already created new, viable stem cell lines using private money. But cloning human embryos for the purpose of stem cell research is even more controversial than just producing more stem cell lines from existing embryos. Cloning conjures up images of Dolly, the cloned sheep, and seems to raise a cornucopia of ethical dilemmas...
...tourists pay for the thrill. The river averages a chilly 5.6?C, and July's rainy season churns up sediment that turns the Colorado chocolate brown. But the water's perils and the sun's searing heat are offset by the Canyon's peaceful aspects: from big-horned sheep scaling cliffs to ancient Pueblan red-clay homes. Intrepid rafters are now making the season's final trips, which run May to October...
...were a British stage director looking for foreign material to adapt, you'd likely avoid anything in Japanese, a language whose subtleties have tormented translators for centuries. And you definitely wouldn't choose Haruki Murakami, whose witty, noirish best sellers about contemporary Japan (Norwegian Wood, A Wild Sheep Chase) combine the mundane and the surreal with daunting complexity...