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...from the proceeds of what everyone else thinks of as a crime," says a senior official closely involved in the discussions. Quips Michel Y. Dérobert, secretary-general of the Swiss Private Bankers? Association in Geneva: "We?ve left the field of taxation to enter the field of wild politics...
...Stone Age ancestors certainly did not live in a feedlot. They had to kill and butcher their meat-on-the-hoof during marathon hunts that lasted for days, sometimes weeks. They had to ramble for miles cross-country to gather wild fruits, grains and nuts and to dig underground tubers. If they wanted to eat something sweet, they had to locate a beehive, smoke out the bees and retrieve the honey, often by climbing up a tree or chopping it down...
Likewise, the components of our diet have undergone a radical change. The flesh of the wild game that made up our ancestors' diet had just 3% to 4% fat, whereas prime beef has 30% or more. And prior to the domestication of crops such as wheat and corn, humans consumed a variety of wild grains filled with fiber, which slows digestion. The process of highly refining foods, which allows carbohydrates to be quickly absorbed by the digestive system, wasn't widespread. As Rutgers University anthropologist Lionel Tiger puts it, human metabolism "did not evolve for prime beef, but, one would...
...increased their consumption of the former while sharply curtailing their intake of the latter--to the point, in some cases, that the rats became protein deficient. Why would rats do this? Perhaps because their brains are hard-wired to take advantage of sudden windfalls of food, and in the wild, of course, such windfalls do not occur every...
...slashed, and whole families from the environs of Lijiang turn up. Miao minority women in ornate, outsize headgear wander the periphery and look on curiously; sanitation workers move through the crowd picking up garbage with chopsticks. I catch only one whiff of dope smoke?surprising, considering that cannabis grows wild all over Yunnan. But the cops just downwind from the lone toker don't seem to notice. They, and the helmeted security guards in front of the stage, nod to the beat?some even take furtive photos and risk the occasional fist-pump...