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...went into effect in October and it follows a nationwide trend of get-tough approaches to pet overpopulation. In Albuquerque, all cats and dogs older than six months must be microchipped and sterilized, unless owners pay an annual fee of $150 to keep their dogs able to reproduce - and another $150 for every new litter. Dogs can be restrained by a chain for only one hour every day, and people who want to have more than four dogs must obtain an additional permit. There is even a provision in the new law that requires dog owners to clean up after...
...Fort Bragg to Kuwait, where they will be the reserves ready to head into Iraq. The All-Americans, as the brigade is known, are paratroopers by training and have historically had clearly defined mission - as their homepage puts it, "execute a parachute assault, conduct combat operations, and WIN." But unless this moment of rumination results in actual strategic change on the ground, it is unlikely that the brigade will be doing what it was trained for in Iraq. The paratroopers will be instead tasked to the dirty and dangerous business of running convoys along booby-trapped roads. With those marching...
...always beat their heads up against these things. Why do people do things like music? Why do they dance? These are things that are big calorie burners, a tremendous amount of energy at times. You don't do things like that over hundreds of thousands of years and survive unless it's some selective advantage. So I'd say we're hard-wired to party...
...keep defending ourselves for two or three months like this," says Hamed, who plans to begin forming a militia in mid-January unless the picture changes. "But we've already decided to attack them if they keep attacking...
...often tacked the other way from Russian President Vladimir Putin and the other former Soviet republics under his thrall. This year, however, the focus is Belarus, the nouvelle Stalinist state run by Alexander Lukashenko, a man who has tried to appear to be Putin's acolyte. On Jan. 1, unless Belarus agrees to pay double what it used to for Russian gas ($105 per 1000 cubic meters instead of the current $46), Moscow will cut off gas supplies and leave its erstwhile ally in the cold. Other observers believe something more shadowy than a pure grab for more money...