Word: baits
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...intermediate steps - prefrontal lobotomy, say. Instead, Indiana decided to fine Knight $30,000, suspend him for three games next season, and give him one no-kidding-this-time "last chance" to behave himself. If Knight had been losing basketball games, of course, he would have been cut up for bait long ago. Forbearance follows the money...
Kolakowski, an investigator for the Wayne County sheriff's department in Detroit, went online with the screen name Melissa83 about a year ago as bait for pedophiles who, in Detroit as elsewhere, tend to prey on naive, rebellious kids from broken homes. But Melissa is only one of the alter egos Kolakowski has invented. Some days he masquerades online as a teenage boy looking for an assault rifle, or a sports junkie betting on the Wolverines, or an old dude with erectile dysfunction shopping for a quick Viagra...
...likely. we've deployed everything from sex hormones to roach-killing wasps in our billion-dollar war against the cockroach, and we haven't made much of a dent. Over the past decade, better bait and smarter tactics have knocked the roach from first to third on the household-pest hit parade (after ants and termites), but there are still a lot more of them than...
...just about anything: table scraps, toothpaste, glue, hair--even, in a pinch, her young. Such fecundity has evolutionary benefits. The more offspring she produces, the better the chance that one of them will be born resistant to whatever poisons future scientists decide to spray. Today's best roach bait is almost universally fatal, but it's only a matter of time before a bug that's immune scuttles out from underneath someone's fridge...
...gait, bound him to that inner tube even as she fought to stay alive. And even a coroner's description of how Elian's tube trailed behind it the body of 61-year-old Merida Barrios, who had been strangled by one of the raft ropes, and floated, like bait, yards from Elian...