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...population in the wild is 5,000 to 7,000. Your story also reported that as many as 7,000 tigers are thought to be kept as pets in the U.S. What an indictment! It is little consolation that they are at least alive, however miserably, and not being worn as fur coats. Jan Schaafsma Betty's Bay, South Africa Big cats and other wild species are called predators, while man is politely referred to as just a primate. Judging from the meat consumption at our local butcher shop in a suburb of Delhi, I estimate that we humans slaughter...
...sprawling port town of Surabaya, Yuyun Surya, a lively communications lecturer at Airlangga University, follows her faith by praying five times a day, yet disappoints many acquaintances by shunning the jilbab, the head covering worn by increasing numbers of Indonesian Muslim women. This graduate of an Australian university admires progressive Indonesian scholars for their moderation but also subscribes to the widespread conspiracy theory that Western agents are behind the terrorist attacks in her country: "They have created Islam as the common enemy." And in the dusty grounds of a pesantren in the same city, a young teacher wrestles with...
...Yiorgos Chrysostomidis, just hours before she was to enter the athletes' Village. Chrysostomidis later jumped from the same balcony but survived. Ioannou took up judo only about four years ago but won bronze at the Balkan Games in 2003. She will be buried in the outfit she would have worn to the Olympic opening ceremonies...
Brown, 63, delivered his lines in a voice worn thin from decades of screaming at referees, but he was not angry. Instead he sounded amazed and resigned--like a man who has seen Vesuvius blow its top and knows that in a few moments an empire will be covered in dust. Brown's mood didn't improve after Saturday's 4-point loss to Lithuania, although, thanks to a Greek victory over Angola, his team backed into the medal round. But 12 years after the original Dream Team pulled off the improbable trick of charming its opponents while destroying them...
When most people hear about vintage things, they conjure up someone's broken-down clutter or maybe a quaint item of dress. But others, like writer EllynAnne Geisel, find in worn wood, rusty hinges and faded cloth the fingerprints of other lives. As she stood ironing a vintage apron some years ago, Geisel realized it had been carefully made by hand. That sparked a sense of connection to the woman who had cut and stitched the cloth and then ironed the apron dozens of times before...