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--Boundary_(ID_dBnA1BiJBn7mrEQN0BMuAQ) Content-type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable =46rom Birdlife International: It doesn=92t take brains to pick a world cup winner 07-June-2010 Cape Vulture Gyps coprotheres - one of Africa's largest birds of prey =20= - is believed to be under threat from the followers of muti magic in =20 South Africa, who mistakenly believe smoking dried vulture brains =20 will confer supernatural powers upon gamblers enabling them to =20 predict match results from the forthcoming football World Cup. Betting on the outcome of World Cup games will be big business and =20 conservationists believe superstition and sorcery will be powerful =20 attractions for gamblers desperate to increase their chances of a big =20= win, placing even more pressure on the Cape vulture, which is already =20= classified as facing global extinction. ..... Read more at: http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2010/06/It-doesnt-take-brains-to-=20 pick-a-world-cup-winner.html As if Old World vultures weren't already in enough trouble!!! Cheers? from Jim in Wolfville= --Boundary_(ID_dBnA1BiJBn7mrEQN0BMuAQ) Content-type: text/html; charset=WINDOWS-1252 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: = 22px; "><font class=3D"Apple-style-span" face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"5"><span= class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-size: 18px; line-height: = normal;"><b>=46rom Birdlife International:</b></span></font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; "><font class=3D"Apple-style-span" = face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"5"><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-size: 18px; line-height: = normal;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: = 22px; "><font face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"5" style=3D"font: 18.0px = Verdana"><b>It doesn=92t take brains to pick a world cup = winner</b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font = face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 11.0px = Verdana">07-June-2010</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: = 16px; "><font class=3D"Apple-style-span" face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"3"><span= class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-size: 11px; line-height: = normal;"><br></span></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: = 16px; "><font face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 11.0px = Verdana">Cape Vulture <i>Gyps coprotheres</i> - one of Africa's largest = birds of prey - is believed to be under threat from the followers of = muti magic in South Africa, who mistakenly believe smoking dried vulture = brains will confer supernatural powers upon gamblers enabling them to = predict match results from the forthcoming football World = Cup.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font = class=3D"Apple-style-span" face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"3"><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-size: 11px; line-height: = normal;"><br></span></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: = 16px; "><font face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 11.0px = Verdana">Betting on the outcome of World Cup games will be big business = and conservationists believe superstition and sorcery will be powerful = attractions for gamblers desperate to increase their chances of a big = win, placing even more pressure on the Cape vulture, which is already = classified as facing global extinction.</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font class=3D"Apple-style-span" = face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"3"><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-size: 11px; line-height: = normal;"><br></span></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: = 16px; "><font class=3D"Apple-style-span" face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"3"><span= class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-size: 11px; line-height: = normal;">.....</span></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: = 16px; "><font class=3D"Apple-style-span" face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"3"><span= class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-size: 11px; line-height: = normal;"><br></span></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: = 16px; "><font class=3D"Apple-style-span" face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"3"><span= class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-size: 11px; line-height: = normal;">Read more at:</span></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: = 16px; "><font class=3D"Apple-style-span" face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"3"><span= class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-size: 11px; line-height: = normal;"><a = href=3D"http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2010/06/It-doesnt-take-brains-to= -pick-a-world-cup-winner.html">http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2010/06/I= t-doesnt-take-brains-to-pick-a-world-cup-winner.html</a></span></font></di= v><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font class=3D"Apple-style-span" = face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"3"><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-size: 11px; line-height: = normal;"><br></span></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: = 16px; "><font class=3D"Apple-style-span" face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"3"><span= class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-size: 11px; line-height: = normal;">As if Old World vultures weren't already in enough = trouble!!!</span></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: = 16px; "><font class=3D"Apple-style-span" face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"3"><span= class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-size: 11px; line-height: = normal;"><br></span></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: = 16px; "><font class=3D"Apple-style-span" face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"3"><span= class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-size: 11px; line-height: = normal;">Cheers? from Jim in Wolfville</span></font></div> </body></html>= --Boundary_(ID_dBnA1BiJBn7mrEQN0BMuAQ)--
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