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...Except that it isn't. This month brought three tiger attacks in less than a week: on Yates; on Las Vegas showman Roy Horn, 59, who was mauled within an inch of his life before an audience of 1,500 at the Mirage hotel; and on Sarah Roy, 21, a trainer at the Keepers of the Wild animal sanctuary in Golden Valley, Ariz. While it might sound like a bizarre coincidence, the fact is that tiger attacks are not all that rare in the U.S. Between 1998 and 2001, according to a study by Philip Nyhus of Franklin & Marshall College...
...runs the entire company and Mulally is head of commercial airplanes. Over the past three years, Boeing has lurched from one new design to another--only to back off ideas abruptly. One proposal, the sleek and futuristic Sonic Cruiser that Boeing promised would fly faster than other any plane except the Concorde, captured the imagination of the aviation world--but not of the airlines' accountants. Boeing shelved the design last December...
...required in that state. But no federal law prevents you from having a pet tiger, and only 20 states forbid big-cat ownership entirely (though many cities, including New York, do have local bans). A bill before the U.S. Senate would ban interstate and foreign commerce in big cats, except for circuses, zoos and other facilities like wildlife sanctuaries. But even that would not prohibit private ownership...
...publicly. "When I'm asked what brought me to Texas, I just about choke," says Leanna Haar, 62. "If I admit that I left Omaha to be near my son and his family in Texas, people assume I've settled into a dotty old age, that I'm nobody except a grandma. It's weird to think of myself that way--and not true...
...FIJI ... Belated Apology Hoping to lift a suspected curse, inhabitants of the remote mountain village of Navatusila have promised to apologize to descendants of a British Christian missionary whom their forefathers ate 136 years ago. According to village lore, their ancestors devoured all of the Rev. Thomas Baker except his leather boots, which, despite prolonged cooking, proved too tough...