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...uneasy ethnic mix in Macedonia, the Yugoslav republic cursed with a contested name and surrounded by historically ill-willed neighbors. Match Macedonia with "powder keg" on an Internet search engine and you'll get 1,340 matches; "tinderbox" yields 332. Plenty of less shopworn slogans were brought to bear by diplomats and human rights monitors who made the same plea: we've got to do something...
Raju and Sheru shuffle about looking for a damp spot in the shade. It's hot, the flies are bothering them and they're bored. Unemployment is no fun for a performing bear...
...Three months ago, India's mangy but ubiquitous performing bears were forced into retirement by an animal-rights conscious government armed with a rarely enforced wildlife protection statute. The intention: to improve the bears' undeniably terrible lot. The result, however, has been even worse. Ten New Delhi bears have been confiscated from owners and confined to dank animal shelters. Some have stopped eating because of homesickness and one bear has passed away...
...Fearing similar fates for their animals, scores of bear owners in the New Delhi area are scrupulously avoiding the crowds they used to entertain. Raju and Sheru spend most of their days lying in a dusty, shaggy heap tied to a post outside their owner's home. Every so often, a child is sent out to pour water on them to help with the heat. "These bears are very expensive to keep and now, instead of earning for us, they have become a burden," complains Abdul, a bear trainer...
...government's reasoning is that a bear should live free in a forest, not in a crowded city-and certainly not with its teeth removed, subsisting on bread and milk and fettered by a painful noose through its nose. They shouldn't behave like Girdhari Lal, a bear who knows all the standard stunts. How does a movie heroine walk? The bear stands on his hind legs and sways seductively. A hero? The bear swaggers. Show us how to smoke a cigarette? The beast puffs on a bamboo stick. And are you going to claw these nice people watching...