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Stately, plump Cyberswine gazes out across a cartoon world, ready to kick some serious toon butt. Cyberswine is both the name and the protagonist of a full-length animated movie, "Part machine. Part cop. Full boar," according to the trailer. You won't find it (him) on film, though--the movie is 100% digital bits, burned onto CD-ROMS and downloadable from the Net, and now showing at a computer near...
...Finance & Trade, a Delaware-based firm that works primarily with developing and former communist countries to make their agricultural and energy systems more efficient. Local contacts always strive to give him a taste of their culture. He has eaten (by hand) a spit-roasted cow in Romania, hunted for boar in Tatarstan and ridden a camel through Mongolia. Getting the local touch often means bedding down in rather unusual accommodations. Last year, for example, he stayed in a yurt in Turkmenistan. "They wanted me to have the experience, so I stayed one night," says Kaplan. "I was sitting...
...went on to stuff Murphy the muskrat, Porky the porcupine, Pam the baby boar and Bob the little bird...
...more important has been overlooked: how incredibly romantic it must have been. The setting was one of the wild, unspoiled sea islands off Georgia--to visitors, they seem like remnants of the New World as it was before its discovery. This one, Cumberland Island, is inhabited by armadillos, wild boar and wild horses. Spanish moss hangs from its ancient oaks. There is a tiny wooden chapel, where the ceremony was held by candlelight. Crickets sang in the grass. Could there be a more beautiful and tender place to hold a wedding...
...REPRESENTATIVE DON YOUNG OF Alaska ever decides to raise some extra income, he can always lease out his Capitol Hill office as a wildlife museum. A former trapper and riverboat captain, he works surrounded by his trophies: the heads of a ram and a wild boar, mounted moose horns and the prime exhibit, a towering Kodiak bear that he bagged on a hunting trip back home. You could say he was a man with a hands-on appreciation of nature. Or you could say he's a guy who prefers his wildlife dead...