On 7/8/04 5:28 pm, in article , "Rodger
Whitlock" wrote:

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The domestication of the goat also has a lot to do with the
near-desertification of the Mediterranean basin.

This did make me grin a bit. A cousn of my ex father in law asked him to
become President of a new Jersey goat society she wanted to start up. He
refused on the grounds that goats had 'caused' the Sahara to become a
desert. ;-)
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