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...D.P.P. sent its supporters to Chiang Kai-shek International Airport on the day Hsu was due to return for what was promised would be a peaceful demonstration. But the scene turned violent after 2,000 marchers on their way to the airport were stopped by a police roadblock. Demonstrators, suspected by some of being government provocateurs, began throwing rocks, and police responded with tear gas and water cannons. By the time the fracas was broken up, 31 police vehicles had been overturned...
...small golden jackal, nipping at the rump of a hyena twice its size, chases the intruder from its territory. Two young lions tear into a still struggling buffalo calf. Such violent scenes are everyday rhythms Among Predators and Prey (Sierra Club Books; 224 pages; $35), the reflections of Wildlife Photographer Hugo van Lawick. The author has a long acquaintance with rough nature: he has lived with East Africa's wild animals for a quarter-century part of the time among chimpanzees with his former wife Jane Goodall. Van Lawick's knowledgeable narrative recalls a life that included a stint covering...
...grackles that is being waged across the country and the methods being used to curb the grackle population. In order to discourage roosting, city administrators in Tempe, Ariz., tried lathering their downtown trees with a concord grape coating that made the birds throw up. Other solutions are more violent. A few years ago, in an odd reversal of stereotypes, the University of Texas in Austin bought shotguns to scare off the grackles, while A&M, famed for its Corps of Cadets, opted for a recording of a shotgun blast echoing through the barracks' courtyards periodically, Gayle recalled...
...Many Lebanese fear that the strike, which aims to cripple Beirut's airport and seaports and possibly block main roads, could spark violent street clashes. But a senior official from Hizballah insists that the strike will be peaceful, although effective...
Farah also imagines the day when we have what she calls a "neuro-correctional system" that could transform criminals into noncriminals. We already force sex offenders to take libido-dampening drugs or face denial of parole. A drug to dampen violent impulses might someday be similarly applied. That could, in theory, prevent crimes...