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...respectively. Even with a slow Ivy start, optimism is the mood in Cambridge. “We want to win a lot more games this season, and we think that’s actually possible,” co-captain Elizabeth Blotky said. PRINCETON 3, HARVARD 0 Although the Tigers were challenged fiercely in two of three games, Princeton proved the more experienced team in the clutch as it knocked off Harvard 3-0 (33-31, 30-25, 32-30) on Saturday night at the Dillon Gymnasium in Princeton, N.J. The Crimson actually had three game points...
...Tony the Tiger and other advertising characters worked the floor while free product samples were distributed from exhibits. Kids played on huge inflatable slides or tried to hook a fish from a small pool while adults ogled 250-h.p. Yamaha engines and Ranger boats. A massive tank displayed fish from the region, including the guests of honor. Pro fishermen, swathed in a patchwork of their sponsors, signed autographs, gave demonstrations and chatted with fans. "The fishing pros are so nice. The other pros just sign and go," said Kim Davis, who had three kids in tow, one of whom longs...
...back, the dealer took him to the zoo in Bengkulu to point out which animals were most profitable. "That was the first and last time that someone took me to a zoo," Jema'aah says with a grin. If he gets really lucky, Jema'ah will come across a tiger's pug marks, the report of which alone will earn him $5. Fanning the flames in front of the hole, he shakes his head in bemusement. "It beats me. Why would anyone want a tiger or a pangolin...
...Part of the answer can be found in the Herbal Encyclopedia, a dictionary of traditional Chinese medicine compiled some four centuries ago that lists 461 animals with organs that purportedly have curative powers. They include the rapidly vanishing tiger and the unfortunate pangolin. According to the dictionary, pangolin scales can be "used to cure tumefaction [swelling], promote blood circulation and help breast-feeding mothers produce milk." If he wanted a more up-to-date answer, Jema'ah could also have asked Wei Hong, a Guangdong native in his mid-30s who developed a taste for pangolin meat when his father...
...Once you finally clear the border and settle into the Tiger-owned A9 Guesthouse in the Tiger administrative capital Killinochchi, sip a Tiger-served beer and tuck into Tiger-grown rice and Tiger-cooked curry, it becomes impossible to think of your hosts only as rebels. Whether previously you saw them as mad bombers or brave martyrs, it becomes plain that the Tigers also have other identities: bureaucrats, firemen, nurses, farmers, restaurateurs and video store entrepreneurs. There are those who resist this complication. They say it humanizes evil and that if someone is a terrorist or supports terrorism, that...