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Pleistocene Megafauna Re-wilding Makes Me Nervous

I already have enough problems with grizzly bears. When I vacationed in the Yellowstone area six years ago, the one fly in the ointment was the omnipresent danger of a rampaging grizzly. Even sitting inside a Denny's you could never be completely comfortable -- any second, one could burst out of the kitchen. They're everywhere, and they're ravenous, and they eat people as though they're popcorn shrimp.

But now (via Scientific American) comes a new, and I think rather rash, suggestion: Replace the extinct megafauna that once roamed the American West, back in the Pleistocene. We're talking lions, camels, elephants, cheetahs, and so on. Obviously you can't reintroduce an extinct species without some kind of Jurassic Park technology (that currently doesn't exist), but you can introduce the close cousins of said species, the ones still on Earth on other continents. They'd be kind of like Civil War re-enactors.

The elephants would stand in for mammoths. The Asian lions that would be introduced are, according to the proponents, the same species as the lions that disappeared in the Pleistocene. Bactrian camels, now endangered in the Gobi desert, would be proxies for the extinct Pleistocene camel known as Camelops.

So in addition to bear spray, you'd need to buy cheetah spray, camel spray, elephant spray. I dunno, I think I'd stick with Lion Country Safari!

"This 'Pleistocene re-wilding' would be achieved through a series of carefully managed ecosystem manipulations using closely related species as proxies for extinct large vertebrates, and would change the underlying premise of conservation biology from managing extinction to actively restoring natural processes," wrote C. Josh Donlan when he first proposed the idea in the journal Nature in 2005.

Our proposal is based on several observations. First, Earth is nowhere pristine; our economics, politics, demographics and technology pervade every ecosystem. Such human influences are unprecedented and show alarming signs of worsening. Second, environmentalists are easily caricatured as purveyors of doom and gloom, to the detriment of conservation. Third, although human land-use patterns are dynamic and uncertain, in some areas, such as parts of the Great Plains in the United States, human populations are declining1 -- which may offer future conservation opportunities. Fourth, humans were probably at least partly responsible for the Late Pleistocene extinctions in North America, and our subsequent activities have curtailed the evolutionary potential of most remaining large vertebrates. We therefore bear an ethical responsibility to redress these problems.

The fact that the idea is taken seriously at all is a sign that we live on a different planet. I call it the Post-Darwinian World, and will discuss it further down the road in an article. Earth has become something more akin to a farm, crossed with a planned community, with elements of a lab experiment.

Nature isn't wild anymore; it's just "wild." You have to make finger quotes when you say the word.

[More on the Pleistocene megafauna here -- scroll down. Here's a travel-section storyabout the Yellowstone trip way back when.]

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From the excellent Peter Carlson story on the Weekly World News:

"If we get a story about a guy who thinks he's a vampire, we will take him at his word," Clontz told the Philadelphia Inquirer before he died in 2004.

And this:

WWN writers quoted sources identified as "a baffled scientist" so often they started joking about a institution called the Academy of Baffled Scientists.

It's a great look at journalistic pranksters and at the irrepressible American love for shocking, mind-boggling, if technically untrue tales. Weingarten and Barry were the sources of one of them, as Gene recalled in an appreciation of Eddie Clontz a few years back:

It was 1993. Dave came up with the perfect tabloid concept -- the tabloid story to end tabloid stories: ELVIS DIES AT 58. We were so excited about this that I telephoned Eddie, to suggest that he write it.

Eddie patiently listened to my pitch, and was silent for a moment.

"You mean, he just died?"

"Right," I said, "like, yesterday. Of, um, a heart attack."

I could hear those oily wheels turning. Eddie knew this would end a tabloid cottage industry of Elvis-still-lives articles. My God, it would basically cripple the franchise.

But, man, what a story!

"Are you sure?" he said, at last.

"Absolutely!" I said.

"Well, we'll have to check into it," he said, not a hint of humor in his voice.

I'm sure he put his best people on it. Weeks went by. But sure enough, the story finally hit the stands: ELVIS DEAD AT 58. It was a huge scoop. WWN donated six pages to it, with many sidebars.

Of course, some weeks later WWN exclusively disclosed that prior reports of Elvis's death had been a hoax. And it was back in the Elvis business.

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From the L.A. Times, a disturbing tale about link obsession. More to come on this general topic this weekend in Outlook.

Meanwhile, here's a blog you won't want to miss.

And this is making me hungry.

Ebbers' Ex-Banker Fails in Bid to Prove Harm by Paul Weiss

A New York federal judge has tossed a suit filed against Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison by the onetime private banker to ex-WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers. David H. Trautenberg, who sued Paul Weiss for breach of fiduciary duty, claims his $5 million severance package would have been five times bigger if the firm had not used confidences against him during negotiations. But Judge George Daniels said Trautenberg had failed to show that "but for" Paul Weiss' actions, he would have received more money.

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Too Many Lawyers? Cut Funding, Says Legislator

According to Wisconsin state Rep. Frank Lasee, lawyers are responsible for a flawed court system, a medical system living in fear of lawsuits and an overly litigious society. Now, his proposal to cut funding to the University of Wisconsin Law School has cleared the state Assembly. Professor Ann Althouse is unimpressed with the proposal. "Lasee's reasoning strikes me as crude," she said. "If he thinks there are too many frivolous tort suits, he can work on tort reform legislation."

Bid to Dismiss Age Bias Suit Based on CEO's Comment Fails

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Clifford Chance Snags Sidley Partners

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Fox Rothschild Still on Merger Tear

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Oliver Hill, Who Argued 'Brown v. Board of Education,' Dies at 100

Oliver W. Hill, a civil rights lawyer who was at the front of the legal effort that desegregated public schools, died at home Sunday at age 100, a family friend said. In 1954, Hill was part of a series of lawsuits against racially segregated public schools that became the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision. Though blind and in a wheelchair in recent years, Hill remained active in social and civil rights causes.