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...holy to all faiths, is steeped in bloodshed and tension, a tangled maze of roadblocks, cement barricades and metal spikes manned by hundreds of Israeli soldiers to keep militant Jews and militant Palestinians apart. Both sides have grown hard as Palestinians stab and stone the settlers and Jews shoot and vandalize their neighbors in regular tit-for-tat violence...
...addition to reducing special interests' power on the Fisheries and Wildlife Board and banning cruel traps, Question One would ban the use of hunting dogs to hunt bears or bobcats. Hounding, as this practice is called, "is the moral and sporting equivalent of shooting a caged animal," according to some state legislators who support Question One. Dogs with radio collars corner their prey, allowing the hunter effortlessly to locate and shoot the helpless animal...
Hounding endangers the hunting dogs as well: Bears and bobcats may fight the dogs, hunters may mistakenly shoot dogs, or the dogs may become caught in traps--Cindy was a hunting dog. Odds do favor the hunting dogs when they "overtake, maul, and kill cubs and kittens," which they do often. Currently Massachusetts law permits hounding for training purposes, leading some hunters to stalk the same bear or bobcat for months before finally killing it. Several states already ban hounding, and three others will consider banning it this Tuesday...
...Plumtree's efforts on Mass Teen Fainting, it is the communal attitude they take to their music-making: with four band members, all of whom are singers, the microphone is passed around like at a Karaoke party. The band also trades instruments, and as a result, some songs like "Shoot to Scoop" emerge underdeveloped and under-performed...
...fruit, pastry and livestock carcasses are placed in a large barrel or piled on the ground. Defenders of baiting point to the long hours and exhausting effort it takes to stalk and kill a bear. But critics like Colorado bear biologist Tom Beck ask, "How fulfilling is it to shoot a bear with its head in a barrel of jelly-filled doughnuts...