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Hard Times for Tree Huggers
The U.S. Forest Service admitted last December that three of its employees were among the government environmentalists who planted hair from endangered lynxes in Washington state forests; according to the Washington Post, the environmentalists were trying to skew a research project in favor of restricting the forests’ development.
Licensing officials in New York City refused to permit the signature event planned for the Russian festival that took place at Brooklyn’s Prospect Park in February. The centuries-old stenka na stenku pits teams of 50 men against one another in vicious fistfights. Said one organizer, “We will have an ambulance standing by [but if] we lose a tooth, we lose a tooth. No big deal.”
The Classic Middle Name (All New)
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Shawn Belschwender.
