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...Progress is often measured in small victories. For example, Nando says her group convinced a local official to refrain from opening a restaurant that featured dishes made from the area's wild birds. But they are also tackling greater challenges. Aceh's forests are the most ecologically diverse in Indonesia, but clearcutting has taken a heavy toll. FFI was able to convince the heads of six Acehnese villages that reckless logging was destroying their future...
...Brent Bauer, the Mayo Clinic's alternative-medicine specialist. Mangosteens contain antioxidants called xanthones that have been shown to stop certain bacteria and fungi in lab tests. Yet independent-distributor sites claim the juice helps everything from Alzheimer's disease to kidney stones. XanGo's Morton concedes that wild claims are being made. "With 600,000 distributors, some stuff gets past our compliance [measures]," he says. "Overpromising and underdelivering is a problem in any company, from painting houses to selling cars...
...Steve-O and I were both in a llama suit walking around in a pen with wild boards, and all of a sudden we felt something pushing against us. I looked around, and an elk had mounted...
...balanced inquisitions a “hit job” (perhaps the most graphic two-word “job” ever performed on the former president). Fox chief Roger Ailes was, like most decent Americans, taken aback by Clinton’s “wild overreaction.” Ailes took a charitable view of the incident, characterizing it as “an assault on all journalists.” Yes, Clinton had wiles enough to center his attack on Fox News, striking at the head and heart of the journalistic profession in one swift blow...
...Leigh Harrell, a fellow classmate of Perez's, e-mailed me from Baghdad to say that she ran into Perez in Iraq not long ago. "We talked for probably an hour telling each other about the wild experiences we'd already had as platoon leaders in combat," Harrell wrote. "We had some laughs and both talked of how much we were looking forward to going home and seeing our families again...