Word: breeding
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...only supply a vital link of the food chain but also carry with them the cowboy heritage that is so much a part of American history. They are the fragile fabric of Western society that occupies the vast spaces and holds them together. "Reluctant heroes," Ryan calls them, a breed that stayed and endured rather than running off to the promises of suburbia...
During Mobutu's early years as President, he was hailed as an exemplar of the new breed of postcolonial African leader. He brought a fragile unity to his country, built schools and hospitals and forged a nonaligned approach to foreign policy. But as Zaire reeled under his economic mismanagement, compounded by the 1973 oil shock and a sharp drop in the price of copper exports, Mobutu resorted to calamitous improvisation. Following a trip to China, he launched a showy "authenticity" campaign designed to reduce Western influence and return his country to its African roots. Many foreign assets were nationalized, giving...
Wrestling is a tough sport to begin with. The rigorous matches, the pain of "sucking" weight, the notoriously difficult practices all combine to make wrestlers a special breed of athletes...
...estimated 435,000 birds died. January is the off-season for birds in the Shetlands. Had the accident taken place in the spring, when bird migration is in full swing -- as it was in Alaska just after the Exxon Valdez accident -- thousands of guillemots and razorbills, which nest and breed off nearby Sumburgh Head, would have been at risk...
While most concern focuses on birds and mammals, the oil may have harmed less visible -- and less photogenic -- creatures such as the sand eel, which has already suffered in recent years from overharvesting. The eels are an important food for arctic terns and other birds that breed on the Shetlands during the summer. "The birds had been weakened in previous seasons here," says Tim Thomas, a wildlife officer for Britain's Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. "If the sand eel does not reproduce well this year because of the oil, the birds could be devastated...