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...buses are splashed with vivid colors mixed into a wild collage of seemingly unrelated landscapes, images and figures - everything from Jiminy Cricket to Adolf Hitler. Many drivers also adorn their buses with artistic tributes to their girlfriends or wives, ranging from conservative head portraits to provocative bikini pinups. One driver adorned his bus with a woman dressed in loincloth slaying a grizzly bear with a knife, raising questions about his home life that no one dares ask (as if to make the point, a painted sign on the inside of the bus reminds passengers not to bother the bus driver...
...game meat served in Australia's best restaurants. "It's a sweeter meat that has no visible fat marbling. It's very lean," says Ray Mauger, executive chef at Adelaide's Red Ochre Grill, which has been serving it since the 1980s. Kangaroos are mostly harvested in the wild for population control, hunted at night by licensed shooters who sell to processing plants. Only four out of 55 kangaroo species can be culled for commercial use. In 2002, the national quota was at a high of nearly 7 million, but as kangaroo populations declined with dry weather, that number...
...Galdikas set up the Camp Leakey rehabilitation center in southern Borneo's Tanjung Putting National Park. To date, the camp has rehabilitated more than 350 orangutans, helping orphaned former pets successfully return to the wild. It also continues to care for another 300 juveniles. To help raise money for its work - and for the charity over which Galdikas presides, Orangutan Foundation International, www.orangutan.org - Camp Leakey is open to visitors, who are encouraged to "adopt" a young orangutan by contributing towards its keep. (See 10 things to do in Washington, D.C.: National...
...With, at most, 60,000 orangutans left in the wild, experts predict that the species could disappear in less than 20 years if more is not done to preserve their habitat. In the battle to save the orangutan, the camp is at once the front line and a sanctuary. And as a bright-eyed baby climbs into your lap, you cannot help but wonder, with some sadness, if Camp Leakey is also the orangutan's last stand...
...provincial propaganda official, Wu Hao, who told the Southern Metropolis Daily that "online public opinion ... is best resolved by the laws of the Internet," further heightened suspicion that the investigation was more focused on controlling public opinion than preventing prison deaths. (See pictures of China on the wild side...