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...success as a polo-playing figurehead, PRINCE CHARLES has decided to produce a line of clothing. The move is an effort to help England's struggling rural economy. Described as "country casual," the line's scarves, sweaters and tweed suits will be made from the wool of British sheep, with proceeds going to charity. Considering that Ralph Lauren has made a fortune for years offering ersatz copies of the prince's wardrobe, it's about time Charles reclaimed his closet...
Time forgot the countryside even more. In a country twice the size of Texas, there are two and a half million residents—nearly a third of them huddled together in the capital city. To this day, nearly half the population consists of nomadic herders who keep goats, sheep, horses, yaks and camels for a living, and dwell in portable felt yurts, (ger in the local language) and move about the open range in search of pasture for their livestock. Infrastructure is simply nonexistent, with no paved roads, little in the way of electrification and old, unreliable phones only...
...begins a tale in Haruki Murakami's After the Quake, a collection of six stories set in Japan immediately following the 1995 earthquake that ravaged the city of Kobe and gave a psychic jolt to the entire nation. In Murakami's novels, including A Wild Sheep Chase and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, a normal guy often experiences a life-changing event, usually with the help of some fantastical device. Ultimately, his struggle is psychological, and so it is in these short stories. Katagiri, for instance, needs giant insects to help him realize he must battle his personal frustrations before...
...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 of Tennessee. Cracking down on at least one invader that...
GEORGIA Gorge Aggression Two Russian combat planes crossed into Georgian airspace and bombed the mountains on the border with Chechnya, Georgian officials claimed. Film from the Pankisi Gorge, a valley in the northern Caucasus Mountains, showed large craters on a hillside and dead sheep, said to have been killed in the strike. Russia denied the allegations but accused Georgia of sheltering Chechen terrorists. The U.S., worried that Pankisi could harbor al-Qaeda activists, has sent soldiers to Georgia to train antiterrorism forces...