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...them and they're spread nice and far, tip to tip. That's a beauty." "Very symmetrical," agrees a friend. I want to show off my animal knowledge, so I break in: "The horns are a good indicator of the animal's health, no?" The men turn and stare. "I'm not sure about their health," Horsley says finally. "It just looks good on a wall." It may be hard to believe, but an auction that turns nyalas into trophies is actually a sign of how game conservation is working in South Africa. Although poaching remains a huge problem...
...poverty, with his family being even poorer than most, "nothing below us 'cept the ground," as he put it. At age 5, he saw his younger brother George drown in a washtub. At about that time Ray developed what may have been glaucoma. He soon found he could stare straight at the sun. By the time he was 7, the sun stopped coming...
...next time you stare in judgment at a fat person on the bus or bemoan your physique in the mirror, remember that nature has stacked the deck against weight loss. Trimming 25 lbs. from your figure may not be that difficult. But try shedding 100 lbs., and your body is going to scream. Whether willpower, exercise, drugs or even surgery is enough to quiet the body's basic need for fat is still an open question...
...narrator in Saturnin, a beloved Czech novel by Zdenek Jirotka, groups people into one of three categories by their reactions to a plate of doughnuts: those who just stare at the doughnuts, those who wonder how it would feel to throw them at other customers, and "people for whom the idea of a doughnut whistling through the air is such an enticement that they get up and actually make it happen." Inspired by the zany book, Prague's opulent Caf? Imperial caters to the third kind. For $72, you can buy a bowl of day-old doughnuts and take...
...narrator in Saturnin, a beloved Czech novel by Zdenek Jirotka, groups people into three categories, by their reactions to a plate of doughnuts: those who just stare at the doughnuts, those who wonder how it would feel to throw them at other customers, and "people for whom the idea of a doughnut whistling through the air is such an enticement that they get up and actually make it happen." Inspired by the zany book, Prague's opulent Café Imperial caters to the third kind. For $72, you can buy a bowl of day-old doughnuts and take...