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...only catch is the price: the couple sells to upmarket restaurants across the Continent at a whopping $600 per kilogram. Why so high? "It's very hard work to farm these huge, wild animals," says Christer Johansson, who, inspired by similar farms in Russia, opened the 24-hectare "Moose House" seven years ago. Most of the cheese is sold on site in the farm shop?King Carl Gustav is said to have once ordered some?or in specialty stores across Sweden. For those who want to try the unusual dairy product before they spend a small fortune, Algens Hus' restaurant...
Lynndie England joined the unit at age 17, having insisted to her parents that she finance her own college education. Independent and tomboyish, England had enough of a wild streak to enjoy standing outside during thunderstorms and even a twister. She dreamed of becoming a storm-chasing meteorologist, says her family. At 19, she surprised many by impulsively marrying a friend. Says Shoemaker-Davis: "When she was was on leave from Bosnia, she ran up to me laughing in the parking lot of the 7-Eleven and said, 'Look what I did!' and showed me her ring." The marriage...
...there's no chance." Dr. Robert Jay Lifton, a visiting professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, has studied torture victims who came out of communist China in the 1950s. Under severe treatment, he found, people said what their interrogators wanted to hear. "They come up with so-called wild confessions," he says. In the 1980s the Israeli Supreme Court restricted interrogators to using "moderate physical pressure" in order to reduce the number of false confessions obtained under torture. But in 1999, after a prisoner died under "moderate pressure," the court banned the practice. The Shin Bet still justifies...
Katie Zucker, 16, has sky blue eyes, wild curly hair and a dazzling smile. She is a champion equestrian and an A student. Her parents are doting, her friends devoted. So what's not to envy? Well, there's the small rectangular box attached to her belt that pumps insulin through a tube into her hip. To test her blood, she pricks her finger seven times a day. "It's scary," she says. "If your blood sugar goes too low, you could go into a coma." Sometimes at school her eyes swell, and she can't see the blackboard...
Even with all the planning, however, there was one wild card: no matter how much they wanted to, the commissioners wouldn't authorize same-sex marriage licenses without an assenting opinion from the county attorney Agnes Sowle. And Sowle was a litigator, not an activist...