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Until he saw the light, Jon Taggart--6 ft. 5 in., jeans, white cowboy hat, Texas twang--was a rancher like any other in the southern Great Plains. He crowded his cattle onto pasture sprayed with weed killers and fertilizers. When they were half grown, he shipped them in diesel-fueled trucks to huge feedlots. There they were stuffed with corn and soy--pesticide treated, of course--and implanted with synthetic hormones to make them grow faster. To prevent disease, they were given antibiotics. They were trucked again to slaughterhouses, butchered and shrink-wrapped for far-flung supermarkets...
...early on a sunny morning in southern Mexico that my family gathered in an outdoor kitchen, ready to convert a mountain of ingredients into a four-course feast. Sun-dried chili peppers, fresh nuts, chunk chocolate and a score of other ingredients were waiting to be blended into a spicy mole sauce. Crisp jicamas (roots of a local bean plant) had been set aside for salad. The buds of Castilian roses would be transformed into ice cream. It was an ambitious menu - especially since none of us had any idea how to make those dishes. But that was the point...
...Still, he adored the trip. At a nature preserve in Australia, he let a huge python wrap itself around his neck. In Auckland, New Zealand, he sipped espresso and watched in amazement as thrill seekers, attached by wires, leaped from the Sky Tower--the tallest structure in the southern hemisphere--in what is called a controlled BASE jump. At the trip's end, he thanked his daughters profusely and, eyes twinkling, said, "You know, I have other dreams...
...have the animals spend most of the winter months indoors, where hard concrete led to foot problems and boredom. Many zoos, like the one in San Diego, have phased out certain species, like the moose, that do better in other climates. "Bringing cold-weather animals into the warm Southern California climate is a bad business decision and a waste of precious resources," says Larry Killmar, the zoo's deputy director of collections...
...mainstream process, it may have evolutionary benefits—since they combine traits of different populations, hybrids may be more adaptable, Reich says.Hybridization, he adds, “might be fundamental to the creative process of evolution.”UNANSWERED PRAYERSA seminal 1988 article in the Southern Medical Journal found that heart patients performed better when Christian groups outside the hospital prayed for their well-being.But HMS researchers Jeffrey A. Dusek and Herbert Benson were unwilling to take those findings on faith.In a study published in the Apr. 4 issue of the American Heart Journal, Dusek and Benson...