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When a lion snores ... transmitters are inserted On a recent trip to South Africa, I got an assignment to photograph lions at the Meletse Game Reserve in Limpopo Province. As often happens ? far more often than photographers like to admit ? the assignment didn't turn out quite as planned. We start off early: 4 a.m. We're trying to reach lions who are being moved from one game park to another. It's called translocation and it's big business in South Africa. Some parks have excess animals, others have a need for them. But on this day there is fog ? thick fog ? which makes for slow going. And when the fog thins, we see that there are potholes everywhere. Our driver, Ivan, slows, and dodges them, but now we're running late. Conversation revolves around how many flats occur on this stretch of road. When the potholes become fewer, Ivan accelerates, trying to make up time. Bam! Bam! A huge one gets us. We have a flat. No, wait, we have two flats. With the help of a kind local farmer, the two wheels are taken to a relatively nearby tire store. We wait for their return. It seems like hours. I pace back and forth, back and forth, like the expectant fathers in the waiting rooms in old movies. My opportunity to photograph the lions is vanishing before my eyes. I'm probably missing the whole thing. I want to cry. Tires fixed, wheels on, we're off again. We get to the reserve more than three hours late, but we haven't missed the whole thing. The lions are already sedated and lying in the back of pickup trucks, but I will get to photograph them getting transmitters inserted into their abdomens so the owners always know their locations. It's incredible to be so close to a lion ? to pet her, touch her claws, whisper in her ear how beautiful she is. That night, I awake with a start. I realize all the sleeping lions in my photographs look dead. I promise you, they're doing fine. I just wish I had the photos to prove it.

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Why Rod Blagojevich was convicted on only one of 24 counts Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was found guilty Tuesday on just one of the 24 counts he faced in his federal corruption trial over allegations he attempted to swap official acts as governor for money. After deliberating 14 days, the jury convicted Mr. Blagojevich of lying to the FBI in a verdict that could send him to jail for up to 5 years. The jury was deadlocked on the remaining 23 counts ? including bribery, fraud, conspiracy, and racketeering ? and could not reach a verdict on charges against Robert Blagojevich, the impeached governor?s brother. US District Judge James Zagel declared a mistrial regarding the deadlocked counts and said federal prosecutors have until Aug. 26 to decide whether to retry the case before a different jury. Federal prosecutors said Tuesday that they will seek another trial. Outside the courtroom, Blagojevich reaffirmed his innocence to reporters and called the single count he was found guilty on ?nebulous.? "The government threw everything but the kitchen sink at me ? I did not lie to the FBI. I told the truth from the very beginning,? he said. He said US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald ?wasted and wanted to spend tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer money.? Blagojevich was found guilty of telling federal agents he has "tried to maintain a firewall between politics and government? and that he "does not track, or want to know, who contributes to him or how much they are contributing to him.? Stuart Slotnick, a New York City criminal defense attorney who specializes in white collar crimes, calls the statements ?puffing you would expect from a politician? and says the count of lying to the FBI is typically used to safeguard a guilty verdict in cases like this one, which may involve other charges a jury may consider too complex to sort out. ?He really wasn?t convicted on any of the core counts. [Lying to the FBI] was almost an ancillary count,? Mr. Slotnick says. The nature of Tuesday?s verdict on the least substantive charge, however, has the possibility of emboldening Blagojevich to declare his innocence and press for a second trial, Slotnick says. The jury's verdict ends what has been a legal saga and celebrity tour for Blagojevich, who was arrested outside his home Dec. 9, 2008 and spent the 18 months leading up to the trial declaring his innocence. What was expected to be a four-month trial tuned out to be relatively brief at about two months. Blagojevich did not testify nor did his attorneys call to the stand several high-profile names on their witness list, including White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and US Senator Dick Durbin. Central to the prosecutor?s case was Blagojevich?s scheming to sell President Obama?s former US Senate seat. He was heard in wiretaps with aides discussing possible candidates for the seat and maneuverings to conduct meetings on the matter, which prosecutors say constitutes a crime. No money changed hands, however, which may have confused jurors on the exactitude of the crime, says David Morrison, deputy director of the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform, a Chicago-based nonpartisan think tank. ?Racketeering and conspiracy are sometimes difficult ideas to understand ? and that?s the aspect jurors may have been tripped up on,? he says. ?What I saw was tape recordings of people discussing the criminal acts they wanted to engage in and witnesses on the stand saying that was me on that phone call and here?s what I did to complete that conspiracy. To my mind it seemed like a very strong case but some members of this jury seemed to have a problem with that,? he added.

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Tottenham should not have had to face Young Boys on a plastic pitch A 3-2 defeat away from home is not a bad result in a two-leg European Cup tie, and it can be considered a great result when you have come back from three goals down after half an hour and struggled to come to grips with an artificial surface. Harry Redknapp said as much after his Tottenham Hotspur players finally gave themselves a chance against Young Boys in Switzerland, although he couldn't resist having a go at the pitch in the same breath. "I have to be truthful," Redknapp said. "I played on Astroturf myself and hated every minute of it. We don't have it in England anymore and I don't think it should be used in a competition like this." Redknapp is right, whether or not he was using the surface to deflect criticism from the inadequacies of his players. It is possible that had Spurs won the game Redknapp might not have bothered to mention the artificial pitch, but his argument that you should not have idiosyncratic conditions in a competition such as the Champions League remains valid. Spurs would have to suffer quite a few relegations, after all, to encounter an artificial surface in domestic football. It cannot be acceptable that after their most successful season in decades, when they have finally reached the promised land of the Champions League, or at least the foothills below the sunny plateau, they suddenly find themselves faced with the dreaded plastic pitch. Not because plastic is unplayable but because it is different. If Redknapp really had to rest Ledley King and Aaron Lennon because he thought the surface would be too punishing, then Young Boys were at an unfair advantage. One has to be careful about generalising here because many modern pitches have an element of synthetic material in their composition ? fibres running through the grass or plastic netting beneath the surface to hold the soil together and assist drainage ? while other Champions League pitches, such as the one Monaco built over a car park, have attracted just as much criticism without being artificial. But the basic principle is clear. Forgive a cliche which may for once be appropriate ? you want a level playing field. You want a flat, grassy playing field, in fact, one that yields, takes a stud and returns a bounce just as much in one venue as it does in another. There may be reasons for impecunious clubs to cling to plastic but it seems utterly incongruous at the elite level of the Champions League. One would have thought it a simple matter for Uefa to expel plastic pitches from their showcase competition, but then you remember Fifa was powerless to prevent this year's World Cup from being turned into a circus by a flyaway ball. Fifa was powerless after the event, that is to say. It seems to have accepted all the manufacturer's guarantees and promises at face value before realising too late, when the tournament was well under way, that the world's best players were struggling with a supermarket ball. I have had a Jabulani in my hands, and that is exactly what it looks and feels like. Granted it had more weight than the sort of plastic football you see schoolboys kicking around, and it may well have been perfectly spherical and all the rest of the promotional guff, but in games it behaved markedly differently from the balls the players had been used to and one wondered why Fifa would risk such a thing in a World Cup. It is said the Germans stole a march by practising with the Jabulani for months before the tournament, yet if true that only emphasises how different the new ball was. There are not many aspects of a football game that can be regulated, after all. The size of the pitch, goals and ball, and the nature of the pitch and ball. No one would ever think of allowing a side to take part in a leading competition if its goal frames were bigger or smaller than anyone else's, just as no one would think of proceeding if a team wanted to play with a ball of a different size. Yet the odd plastic pitch is still around and, to the detriment of the tournament, the World Cup was played with a plastic ball. No leather, no stitching, no panels, just a molded plastic ball. Superior to the ones you see on garage forecourts, but still a plastic ball. In Johannesburg during the World Cup, Adidas staged a mini-exhibition of footballs through the ages and it seemed to me that near perfection had been achieved a couple of decades ago, when stitched leather balls were superbly light, round and water-resistant, and before the urge to use synthetic materials and do away with stitches and bladders arrived. Call me Luddite, if you wish, but I don't think much that has happened since counts as progress. I think football should be played with leather balls and on grass. Certainly I think football should be played with a standardised ball, like cricket. I am aware that subtle differences exist in the manufacture of cricket balls around the world, but as far as I know they are all still made of leather. I don't imagine bowlers will start pinging down tennis balls or spongies any time soon. Football would not necessarily be taking a backward step if it reverted to something that was fit for its purpose, and stuck with it. Even if Fifa insists, for commercial reasons, on having a different ball for every World Cup, then surely the time to introduce the new design would be straight after a World Cup, so that everybody gets four years to have a look at it. I understand that would not have the same commercial impact but it would be nice to think, just once in a while, that the authorities have the game's best interests at heart.