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Shoot to Kill Inside the hidden links between American big-game hunters and Zimbabwe’s Mugabe dictatorship. WEB EXCLUSIVE By Joshua Hammer Newsweek Updated: 5:58 p.m. ET Jan. 13, 2006 Jan. 13, 2006 - Jocelyn Chiwenga is not a woman to be taken lightly. The wife of Gen. Constantine Chiwenga, commander-in-chief of Zimbabwe’s army, Mrs. Chiwenga has earned a reputation in her own right as a vicious enforcer for President Robert Mugabe and his ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Popular Front (ZANU-PF). In April 2002 she reportedly showed up at a farm outside Harare, the capital, with an armed gang and ordered the...

GERING, Neb. -- The ibex head was jammed next to the moose, whose velvety antlers brushed against a rare red lechwe and an African bongo. Below them were several preserved bobcats, and at the far end of the storage container stood endangered leopards, frozen in lifelike mid-prowl. In all, there were more than 800 big-game and exotic animals piled into an old railroad car behind the Wyobraska Wildlife Museum, a modest and lightly visited facility here, far from any population center. It was just one of four large containers packed with animal mounts and skins -- trophies shot on expedition...

Is that a joke? Who is going to believe that? For DR.KERRY the charlatan war against terrorism come down by catching and killing B.LADEN! A big game a video game at home without fight,whithout soldiers,whithout deaths. Moreover B.LADEN just said that the american people should be secure if US is not "aggressive" with "islamic countries".KERRY is telling exactly the same story about Irak. BENLADEN /M.MOORE/KERRY have something else in common they are stupid.BUSH was right on the 9/11 in the morning ,he was simply human and intelligent,going on listening to child a few minutes after he knew the terrible and...

About 14 million people a year buy hunting licenses in the U.S. That's less than 30 years ago, but if you add to that people who own lifetime licenses and youth hunters under 17 who don't need to buy licenses in some states (as they are accompanied by adults), there are close to 19 million hunters in the U.S. each year. If you add in those who don't hunt each year but still consider themselves active, the total number of hunters is closer to 24 million. But the untold story is that the culture of hunting is changing. There are...

Cougar sightings go beyond the zoo By Jill Dobson, News 3 Reporter (NEWS 3) - Are wild cougars on the prowl in Michigan? Cougars have been blamed for a recent attack on farm animals in Kalkaska County. Most people have only seen cougars roaming in the zoo. But researchers at Michigan Wildlife Habitat Foundation say they've had reported sightings including in areas near Kalamazoo, Battle Creek, Holland, Three Rivers and Cassopolis. Researchers say cougars prey on four-legged animals, and are highly unlikely to attack humans. Emmett Township resident Cyndy Ackley says she and her daughter were shocked to see a...

<p>HILLSIDE, N.J. — A restaurant manager and his wife claimed a $58.9 million share of the Big Game lottery jackpot Tuesday, a year after filing for bankruptcy with nearly $600,000 in debts.</p> <p>Jorge and Joanne Lopes came forward after a dizzying two weeks during which a group of New Jersey nursing home employees mistakenly thought they held the winning ticket.</p>

<p>And the Big Game winner is ...</p> <p>Uh-oh.</p> <p>Transforming a lighthearted lottery mystery into a murky entanglement rife with intrigue, state officials said yesterday that they've received competing claims for last week's $59 million Big Game prize.</p> <p>Is New Jersey's newest moneybags the eerily calm man who validated the winning ticket at a Hillside convenience store on Wednesday?</p>