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What makes the problem hard to police is the sheer number of exotic animals for sale. There are about 2,500 licensed animal exhibitors in the U.S., and only 200 of them belong to the American Zoo and Aquarium Association, which condemns the sale of exotics to hunting ranches. Even unaffiliated zoos might be reluctant to wade into the canned-hunt market, but many do so unknowingly, selling overflow animals--often products of too successful captive-breeding programs--to middlemen, who pass them into less legitimate hands. The crowding that can result on the ranches leads to animals' being killed...
...dead. What kind of magic is this? The jealous mistress is still alive, and doesn't at this stage even know of her new rival's existence. The young woman is killed, it seems, by a sort of telepathic transfer?by the guilt in Genji's dream. The sheer glamour of life in this world is constantly shadowed by forces that could take it all away?forces inside and outside the world...
...Wall Street, of course, has developed a well-deserved reputation for rustling up rallies (or tech-stock bubbles) by dint of sheer will and optimism, only to sag mournfully when reality refuses to cooperate. Investors tried this trick before, pushing the Dow above 10,000 in December and January on hopeful corporate and economic news - only to run into Enronitis. Now they're back at it, and even if the next few sessions take some of the steam out - there's always profit-taking and second-guessing, even when herd is celebrating - the cries of "bottom," for the economy...
...places and report the truth, and the best in the room will get a gleam in their eyes--a little ignition of trench-coat wanderlust, their minds flickering in black and white for a moment, a few frames of '30s movies. Daniel Pearl, I gather, had the gleam. A sheer avidity to know things is the most endearing trait of any journalist. Long ago, the novelist and journalist John Hersey wrote in a sketch of Henry Luce, "He was amazed and delighted to learn whatever he had not known before." Curiosity is the noblest form of intellectual energy...
...Mardi Gras party after the parade that draws in the dance devotees and those searching for sheer unbridled pleasure. Up to 25,000 people?mainly gays and lesbians?follow the parade to a cluster of entertainment venues in the inner-Sydney suburb of Moore Park for a 12-hour dance extravaganza, which starts at 10 p.m. For one night, the cavernous, and usually vacant, Royal Hall of Industries is transformed into a dance club with more laser lights and go-go boys than a Britney Spears concert. Thousands dance to one beat in the main hall, the rest scatter...