Emily is not against hunting rattlesnakes in general, but she'd like to see the roundups and the hunts be regulated. Emily's main concern about the roundups is how the snakes are treated. In Georgia, the last of three rattlesnake roundups transformed into a wildlife festival last year.
Our Russia and defence editors travelled to the capital, finding a city largely back to normal. They ask both civilians and the country’s top brass about Ukraine's position—and its future. China’s population-control measures worked perhaps too well, yet even an incipient labour-market crisis is not changing resistance to immigration. And the issues with America’s springtime rattlesnake round-ups.
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