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...creature, long believed to have mystical powers - Ctesias wrote about people grinding its horn down to mix into a restorative elixir - now took on greater symbolic powers too. The unicorn both came to represent Christ, and also began to represent purity and chastity. The idea that unicorns could only be tamed by virgins became a widely held belief, and images of unicorns resting their heads in chaste womens laps, with not so subtle sexual undertones, began to appear in artwork. Likely for similar reasons of imagery and historical belief in its purity and healing powers, over time the unicorn...
...many tigers? That's not a problem India is likely to face any time soon. Ranthambore is a rare success story in the country's attempts to save its national symbol from extinction. In February, a government-backed report found there were about 1,400 tigers left in the wild--a drop of more than 60% in five years, driven by poaching and human encroachment into tiger habitats. Conservationists are studying Ranthambore's success closely, hoping to replicate it elsewhere. The lessons learned here are vital not because they illuminate some secret key to saving the big cat but because...
...grow old, in contrast to his martyred brothers, whom we remember for their vibrancy, and whose precluded later years we can only guess at. But for the majority who are too young to recall his brothers, he has been, as one interviewer put it to me last month, a symbol of permanence in politics...
...basic economics predicts, when a scarce resource cannot be allocated by market-determined prices, it will be allocated some other way--in this case, in what was to become an iconic symbol of the times, by long lines at gasoline stations. In 1974, in an attempt to overcome the unintended consequences of price controls, drivers in many places were permitted to buy gasoline only on odd or even days of the month, depending on the last digit of their license plate number. Moreover, with the controlled price of U.S. crude oil well below world prices, growth in domestic exploration slowed...
...commissioning ceremony, Faust addressed the issue of access to the military by highlighting the importance of service as a symbol of citizenship...