Word: beare
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...rationality and vision" about arms control which he had developed over the decades since joining America's fledgling military science efforts at the start of World War II. Thus the years from 1965 on, Kistiakowsky covered the nation making speeches, writing articles, attending conferences, and holding seminars bringing to bear both his scientific background and the knowledge that came from many years of "insider's experiences" in Washington
...then came Maine, again. The Black Bears got a run in the top half of the first; the Crimson came back with a score in the bottom half. Maine tallied once in the second; Harvard again tied the score. It was 3-3 after seven, and it looked like the Crimson might survive another day. But Black Bear third baseman Bill Reynolds' solo shot in the eighth was just too much. Harvard went hitless the final two innings...
...their hind legs, the great humpbacked beasts-among the largest carnivores in North America-can kill an elk or crumple the fender of a car with a swipe of a powerful paw. Still, for all its might, the grizzly, or more properly Ursus arctos horribilis (terrible northern bear), has become pathetically vulnerable...
...early 1800s, when Lewis and Clark made their famous survey (and hesitated to send off scouts by themselves for fear they might accidentally disturb a bear), at least 50,000 grizzlies ranged from Texas to Oregon. Today, as a result of hunting, poaching and encroachment on their habitat, no more than 1,000 grizzlies, if that many, survive in the lower 48 states. One of the largest groups, probably no more than 200 bears, form an isolated, highly threatened band in and around Yellowstone National Park, where their survival has been the subject of a surprisingly ferocious argument among...
Inevitably, maulings and even deaths occurred immediately after the closures, as the bears, which are usually eager to avoid humans, increasingly encountered them. Yet more often than not, it is the animal that has been the victim. Says Lance Olsen, president of the Montana-based Great Bear Foundation: "The grizzly can get shot just for showing up."Many of the animals are falling to poachers, who seem to have no trouble illicitly selling grizzly skins for as much as $10,000 or grizzly paws for $3,000 a pair. Even when they are caught, the poachers usually...