Archive for March 2005
Animals in Captivity – Two Chimpanzees Attack
I’ve been to zoos many times and always enjoyed them but my memories are most influenced not by casual visions of great creatures from the wild but by two more somber observations. The first was about thirty years ago at the Sacramento Zoo where I watched a big cat – not like a lion or…
Read MorePoliticians Condemn Your Debt, Deepen Theirs
I wasn’t looking for anything controversial, just a few quick early-morning facts before I began work. I suppose I should have been reading an almanac instead of a newspaper, for on one page an article explained why many people are sinking in credit card debt and on the other side a headline announced the United…
Read MoreExplosions and Elections in the Middle East
Several days ago Iraqi insurgents in Hilla detonated a massive car bomb scattering body parts and clothes onto a street puddled with blood. About one hundred twenty people died and many more were wounded. Most of the victims – typically – were unarmed, unprepared, and lightly guarded recruits for the army and police. They were…
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