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For some, these dietary changes are are health-oriented, but many are more motivated by concerns about the impacts of livestock farming on animal welfare and the environment. The idyllic farmyard pastures that reside in our imagination are a far cry from the truth of concentrated meat factory farming. In these intensive settings, tens of billions of animals are slaughtered every year. Animals are mutilated, male chicks and calves are often killed at birth, and many of the animals we eat spend their entire shortened lives in cages....

William O. Taylor, proud Yankee builder of a billion-dollar company and as worthy a paragon of the Old Economy as I ever met, flashed his eye across the desk, sucked in through clenched patrician teeth and quietly blew me away with his response. “Golly,” he said. “I wish I were in your shoes.” My shoes? My penniless, no-B-school, no-safety-net, bewildered-wife-and-kids-at-home, so-desperately-full-of-holes-I-was-almost-barefoot, pavement-pounding, risk-kicking shoes making tracks in the New Economy?...

The shock departure of inaugural coach Tony Popovic has complicated their campaign and it will be important to settle in an adequate replacement soon. The club have managed to claim the A-League premiership as well as a historic Asian Champions League title since their establishment in 2012 and will be hoping that, following a winter of wholesale changes, the club will finally be crowned as nation’s best. 2016-17 finishing position: 6th...

Asked by one of Libby’s lawyers if he had talked about Plame with anybody else before outing her in his column, Novak said he’d discussed her with a lobbyist named Richard Hohlt. Who, the lawyer pressed, is Hohlt? “He’s a very good source of mine” whom I talk to “every day,” Novak replied. Indeed, Hohlt is such a good source that after Novak finished his column naming Plame, he testified, he did something most journalists rarely do: he gave the lobbyist an advance copy of his column....

Many people of faith in this country would agree, especially those of us who believe our lives are not merely under-reported but outright caricatured and ridiculed: Christians. To better understand such lives, Baquet’s team should try this simple idea on for size: hire people who care about this journalistic beat and have them write stories about the lives of Christians in all of their glory and complexity. There was no better Christian life to write about last year—and celebrate—than that of Orville Rogers, who died in November at the age of 101....

Jukka-Pekka Metsävainio, who goes by J-P, began shooting the project in 2009, and it took 12 years and 1,250 hours to make the photo, which is 100,000 pixels wide and comprises 234 individual panels stitched together, featuring millions of celestial objects. J-P is one of the few to document photons that traveled millions of years through space with such clarity and dedication to detail. The practice is so rare there isn’t an official name for it....

Thanksgiving to Lincoln was about appreciating our bounty of food and the “blessings of fruitful fields” amid the conflict. Thanksgiving was a day to build “peace, harmony, tranquility and Union” at home. As Lincoln also noted in his proclamation, peace “with all nations” was just as important. It was far more than what many today consider to be a day of eating turkey and watching football. While we enjoy Thanksgiving, let’s envision a world where every nation can celebrate this wonderful holiday in peace and free from hunger....

At the early stages of HIV disease, uninfected white blood cells hold the virus in check. Over time, those cells grow less responsive, the virus proliferates and the immune system collapses. To see if IL-12 might slow this cycle, the NCI researchers first drew blood from 40 infected volunteers and gauged their white-cell responses to a range of foreign substances. Left unassisted, the volunteers’ white cells responded sluggishly. But when the researchers added IL-12 to the blood, they got vigorous responses to the same foreign materials....

The scientists owe their breakthrough to new technology that allowed them to sift quickly through vast numbers of proteins. They found that CD8 cells from nonprogressors manufactured one set of proteins that those of AIDS patients did not–the alpha-defensins. And further tests showed that the defensins were not just bystanders. The proteins kept HIV from replicating in cultures. Other scientists are skeptical. Virologist Jay Levy of the University of California, San Francisco, insists that the alpha-defensins have only weak antiviral properties and says that in his experiments, CD8 cells don’t even make the proteins....

At issue is Cuomo’s cut of $77 million from the proposed judicial budget of $966 million. Under the New York constitution, Wachtler argues, the judiciary has the right to send its budget to the legislature “without revision” by the governor. “The governor has put himself in the way,” says Wachtler. The issue is not being fought as a dry, analytical matter. Says Cuomo: “Do we have some elitist Brahmin government here with two budgets: one, ‘we the people in robes decide what we need,’ with what’s left over going to the other 18 million New Yorkers?...

Toronto’s Dominican Summer League East affiliate went 68-2 in 1992, outscored opponents 571-175 and finished 36.5 games ahead of the second place team. MORE: Will the Blue Jays win the WS? | Blue Jays visual history How did they do it? Older players. Dominican Summer League archives aren’t as easily obtainable as those from domestic leagues, but it appears the 1992 “D-Jays” had an experienced lineup and pitching staff that overmatched younger opponents....

The key issue: the sale to Taiwan of advanced weaponry, including Aegis-class destroyers that could potentially defend the island against China’s medium-range M-11 missiles. Xiong is expected to repeat Beijing’s warning that a sale could trigger a harsh Chinese response. But the White House is under pressure to approve the deal in order to insulate Al Gore from George W. Bush’s charges that the administration is soft on Beijing....

The fear seems to override logic. In a recent study, researchers at Arizona State University asked several hundred business and science majors how they would feel about dining with silver-ware used by AIDS patients on the previous day (and then washed), the previous week and as much as a year ago. Although they were well informed factually about HIV infection, the majority admitted they would feel some fingering unease even after a year....

For me, as a German Jew and as the executive vice president of the World Jewish Congress, Menachem Rosensaft’s presence at Bergen-Belsen was especially important. Menachem, the WJC’s associate executive vice president and general counsel, is not only my colleague and friend. He teaches about the law of genocide at the law schools of two prestigious universities, Columbia and Cornell; has written widely about Bergen-Belsen both before and after its liberation; and chairs the advisory board of the foundation that oversees World War II memorial sites in Lower Saxony, including most prominently Bergen-Belsen....

As the story unfolded and the tabloids howled, it turned out Cover and Lawrence were among at least 47 victims who have come forward. It was a return to “wilding,” a term coined in the 1980s when Central Park was a terrifying place and New York didn’t have a rehabilitated reputation to protect. It was also a new blemish for a police department already mired in controversy over its tactics....

“This is no longer a missing persons case,” said Washington Police Chief Charles Ramsey. “This is a death investigation.” Levy disappeared on or about May 1, 2001, as she prepared to return to California after completing a stint as an intern with the federal Bureau of Prisons. The disappearance triggered an avalanche of publicity after she was romantically linked to California Democrat Rep. Gary Condit. The remains–a human skull, bones and fragments of clothing–were found by a man walking his dog and searching for turtles....

Team spirit, work ethic, fitness and so on are generally the buzz words and phrases that spring to mind when people are asked about the club’s maiden top-flight title, but there’s more to it than that. Pull the leg off a fly and it’ll buzz away into the sky, but remove a wing? For Leicester City, Jamie Vardy, N’Golo Kante and, most importantly at this juncture, Riyad Mahrez, were and are the club’s wings....

The 49ers general manager knew little about Jimmy Garoppolo when he traded a second-round draft pick to the Patriots in exchange for their backup quarterback almost three years ago. A small-college product whom New England drafted in the second round in 2014, Garoppolo had played well in just two starts over his three-and-a-half-year stint with the era’s premier franchise. Lynch knew he was getting a solid player, but that was the extent of his expectation....

And then it was down to two. Despite the rumours circulating that Sports Minister, Khairy Jamaluddin would contest for the Football Association of Malaysia’s (FAM) president post, it is ultimately only down to two as FAM announced on Monday that it will be a two-horse race for the top post. In the same announcement, it was also informed that four candidates will run for the FAM Deputy-President, nine candidates for the Vice-President, 17 candidates for the executive committee (male) and seven candidates for the executive committee (female)....