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Start with a cage containing five monkeys. Inside the cage, hang a banana on
a string and place a set of stairs under it. Before long, a monkey will go to
the stairs and start to climb towards the banana. As soon as he touches the
stairs, spray all of the other monkeys with cold water. After a while, another
monkey makes an attempt with the same result - all the other monkeys are
sprayed with cold water. Pretty soon, when another monkey tries to climb the
stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it.
Now, put away the cold water. Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it
with a new one. The new monkey sees the banana and wants to climb the stairs.
To his surprise and horror, all of the other monkeys attack him. After another
attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs, he will be
assaulted. Next, remove another of the original five monkeys and replace it with a new
one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer
takes part in the punishment with enthusiasm! Likewise, replace a third
original monkey with a new one, then a fourth, then the fifth. After replacing all the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys have
ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, no monkey ever again
approaches the stairs to try for the banana. Why not? Because as far as they know that's the way it's always been done
around here. And that, my friends, is how Government's policies begin. (Unknown source from Internet) In the St. Petersburg Times of 12 January 2002, IWMC has discovered that Mr. Turner is applying the Sustainable Use Principles. Quite a discovery! "Ready to conquer the culinary frontier" was the title of an article published in the St. Petersburg Times on 12 January 2002. Never one to hesitate to go where no man has gone before, Ted Turner is opening a chain of restaurants that will feature 25 ways to serve a bison burger. Bison with avocado, bison with jalapenos and bison with fried eggs, cheese, ham, bacon and mushrooms will be among the items on the menu when the first Ted's Montana Grill opens in Columbus, Ohio, this month. The idea is not as bizarre as it sounds, at least for Turner, 63. The man who won the America's Cup yachting trophy, started CNN and built a cable TV empire, among other things, the man who is considered USA's largest bison rancher. He has 30,000 animals - one-tenth of the US herd - on 1.75 million acres in the West. The restaurants will buy bison from a cooperative that includes Turner's 14 ranches and about 300 other producers, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution says. The taste of bison, which has less fat, has been compared with that of a lean cut of cow. Nine more restaurants are scheduled to open in the next 15 months, including in Baltimore, Denver, Atlanta and Nashville, Tenn. 
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Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs, he is attacked. Most of
the monkeys that are beating him have no idea why they were not permitted to
climb the stairs or why they are participating in the beating of the newest
monkey.