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...before the chicken reached your plate in its rubbery form, it was most likely confined to a small cage with seven other chickens. Inside this cell, the chicken was either “shocked” through starvation or disoriented by artificial lighting to overeat and, as a result, suffer obesity conditions like heart attacks. Ultimately, when the hen became huge, it was hung upside-down, had its legs snapped into metal shackles, its throat slit open, only to be immersed in scalding hot water for feather removal while staying conscious through the entire process...
...culture numb to almost everything except sex. In defense of her participation in last week’s love-in, PETA campaign coordinator Brandi R. Valladolid explains, “I certainly don’t make the rules, and I certainly would be a fool to let animals suffer in silence because I refuse to play by them...
...think Jesse made a strong statement on behalf of all the women that suffer from facial hair,” said Julie L. Schroeder, assistant to IOP Director Daniel R. Glickman...
...Child law also allows some of Franklin's learning-disabled kids to take the test with special accommodations like extra time. But it permits only 1% of the district's kids to take an alternate test--even though 14% are special ed. Children at the upper margin may also suffer. Activities for the gifted and talented have not been cut, but high-achieving kids aren't grouped in accelerated clusters in regular classes anymore. They are spread out so they can help the lower-scoring students...
...after a century of watching the Yankees club America's small-market teams like baby seals and tigers and red sox, you have to suffer during the off-season too. In the biggest moral affront yet to your sense of fairness, last week the Yankees--already the richest, best team in baseball--traded for Alex Rodriguez (A-Rod)--the richest, best player in baseball. The Yankees now have a slightly better lineup than the National League All-Star team, one of whose members will undoubtedly be the Yankees' second baseman by the play-offs...