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...idea that their horses are going to slaughter to become food. "They're thinking their horse will go to some nice family. But those killer buyers, when they buy at auction, it's just a matter of hours before the horse is slaughtered," he says. Opponents of horse slaughtering claim that many of the horses sold for consumption are young foals as well as old racehorses and "summer camp" ponies. When California voted by referendum in 1998 to ban the slaughter of horses for consumption, Pickens notes that horse theft fell by 34%. "You know they are killing...
Chambers and others like him are an emerging face of philanthropy in the U.S. Individually, they will never have the impact of, say, Bill Gates, whose foundation can lay claim to assets that dwarf the gross domestic product of many not-so-small countries. But collectively, regular people who have just retired or are approaching retirement age are making their distinctive mark as social entrepreneurs...
...will not attack the interim government, which is mostly secular in outlook, but the government?s closest ally, Ethiopia, is worried enough to be massing troops to take on the Islamic forces itself. The Islamists and Somali journalists say that Ethiopia has already sent troops over the border, a claim Ethiopia denies. But there is no doubting Ethiopia's intentions. ?We will use all means at our disposal to crush the Islamist group if they attempt to attack Baidoa,? Ethiopian Information Minister Berhan Hailu told Reuters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia?s capital...
...official in Baghdad familiar with Sunni politics confirmed that claim: "He's still in charge, still dedicated to a return of Ba'athist dictatorship," said the official. Although U.S. and Iraqi sources say there have been contacts, usually through intermediaries, with the party's leadership, they insist there can be no deal with al-Douri. "The only thing we will discuss with him is his surrender," says the U.S. official...
...back because it's something you have to discover yourself?" Poor Mike: he thinks that if he doesn't know something it's not worth knowing. So he's forever lumbering into the traps, innocent or near-fatal, that women set for him. And when another man dares to claim the sexual prize Hammer keeps turning down, he gets in a competitive fury. Mike put the lousy in jealousy...