January 9, 2009
No 'I' in This Team, Either
Kenneth Mulder's instructions to the students taking his final exam last month were simple enough: Make your team walk in a figure eight and over a row of simulated vegetables without stepping on them.
Nothing, however, is simple when the team consists of a pair of oxen that could pulverize someone's foot with a single misstep.
Mr. Mulder, an ecological economist, teaches "The History and Application of Draft Animals in Agriculture" at Vermont's Green Mountain College. He was
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