Word: beasting
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...lighten their work load. Ren, a scrubwoman, offers Chihiro the weary wisdom of the eternal underclass. The child's best hope for fleeing Yubaba on the undersea railroad is young Haku, a boy who can take on the shape of a dragon. When Chihiro and this beautiful beast take to the sky, they express the most elevated forms of teamwork and puppy love...
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...homework: if a tiger and an Indian boy found themselves floating in the Pacific, this is how each would respond. Most importantly, Martel doesn't make the mistake of anthropomorphizing his tiger. Richard Parker is an animal and a killer, as Pi reminds himself again and again. That the beast is also a child of God and must be saved does not make him a human...
...city. Each day at this time of year 170 flights pile into one of Europe's busiest airports. A thousand hotels and 3,000 restaurants cater for the arrivals, who will spend at least $5 billion this year. Most it is true, leave satisfied. But tourism is a delicate beast and, as Kanigel gently points out, Nice has all but exhausted its resources - environment, physical capacity, attractions. Growth is no longer an option. Nice either stabilizes, or diversifies or declines. Thomas Cook has a lot to answer...
Technically, the 82-leg beast is a centipede (despite their name, centipedes never have exactly 100 legs). But it is so unusual that taxonomists determined it is not just a new species but a new genus as well. (Genus is a broader taxonomic category that can cover dozens of species. House cats and mountain lions, for example, are two species within the genus Felis...